Sergio Fubini

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Sergio Fubini (born December 31, 1928 in Turin , † January 6, 2005 in Geneva ) was an Italian theoretical physicist. He was one of the pioneers of string theory . Politically, he was actively involved in promoting peace in the Middle East.

Live and act

Fubini was born in Turin, from where he fled persecution as a Jew to Switzerland in 1938. From 1945 he attended the Lycée in Turin, where he studied physics and graduated in 1950 “cum laude”. After that he was an assistant in Turin. From 1954 to 1957 he was in the USA and from 1958 to 1967 at CERN in Geneva .

In 1959 he became professor of nuclear physics at the University of Padua and in 1961 professor of theoretical physics at the University of Turin .

From 1968 to 1973 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but continued teaching in summer courses in Turin, and from 1973 back at CERN, where he was a member of the directorate from 1971 to 1980 and played an important role in the planning of the Large Electron- Positron Collider (LEP). At MIT, he and his student Gabriele Veneziano were the focus of an active school of theoretical physicists with close ties to Italy (with a "Bruno Rossi" exchange program financed by the Italian INFN and MIT) who carried out fundamental work on string theory (other well-known MIT colleagues at the time Victor Weisskopf , who brought Fubini to MIT, Steven Weinberg , Roman Jackiw ). From 1994 to 2001 he was a professor in Turin.

Fubini worked in the 1960s on current algebras and S-matrix theory ( regge trajectories, etc.), in particular on their field theoretical foundation. In the 1970s he was one of the pioneers of string theory with his MIT colleague and student Gabriele Veneziano . In the 1970s he also worked on classical solutions of Yang Mills equations and conformally invariant quantum mechanics (Nuovo Cimento 1976).

Fubini was also politically active for peace in the Middle East and in 1995 organized the "Sinai Physics Meeting" in Dahab, Egypt in the Gulf of Aqaba with - among others such as Roman Jackiw - Israeli and Arab physicists, where the MESC (Middle East Scientific Corporation) was born. He also initiated the establishment of an electron synchrotron in the Middle East, with the aim of creating an international meeting place like the one at CERN. The idea took shape in 1997 through Herman Winik from SLAC and Gustav-Adolf Voss from DESY . With the support of the German government and the former CERN Director Herwig Schopper (who is also the first director of Sesame was) was for the closed 1999 BESSY -1 system as the core of "Sesame" Facility in Jordan selected, under the auspices of UNESCO was . Fubini also organized meetings between Palestinian and Israeli physicists from 1995 to 2001.

He had been married to Marina Colombo since 1956 and had one daughter.

Awards

Fubini had been a member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino since 1966 , in 1968 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg . In 1969 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senior Staff Appointments - Laboratoty I. (PDF) CERN, December 3, 1973, accessed on November 24, 2018 (English, CV and assessment on the occasion of the appointment as director of the theory department).
  2. ^ Eliezer Rabinovici: SESAME: a bright hope for the Middle East. (PDF) In: CERN Courier. July 2015, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Sergio FUBINI. Accademia delle Scienze, accessed November 24, 2018 (Italian).
  4. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Fubini, Sergio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2005
Place of death Geneva