Stanley Deser

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S. Deser, ADM-50 conference, Texas A&M University , 2009

Stanley Deser (born March 19, 1931 in Rovno , Poland ) is an American theoretical physicist who mainly deals with gravitational physics.

Deser made his bachelor's degree in 1949 at Brooklyn College in New York and his master's degree in 1950 from Harvard , where he received his doctorate in 1953 ("Relativistic Two Body Interactions"). From 1953 to 1955 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the same time in 1954/55 at the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley . From 1955 to 1957 he was at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen (as a Fellow of the National Science Foundation) and from 1957/58 as a lecturer at Harvard University .

Deser has been Professor of Physics at Brandeis University in Waltham since 1958 (from 1980 Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics ) . Since 2007 he has been Professor Emeritus there. Among other things, he was visiting professor at All Souls College in Oxford in 1977, at the Sorbonne (1966/67 and 1971/72), the Collège de France (1976), the Institute for Advanced Study (1987/88), the University of Uruguay (1970 ), Boston University (1987/88) and Loeb Lecturer at Harvard 1975. In 1961/62, 1976, 1980/81 and 1993/94 he was at CERN. Since 2005 he has been visiting professor at Caltech .

Deser is known from the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) formulation of the equations of motion of general relativity (and, related to it, a new mass / energy definition in this theory), which he worked with Richard Arnowitt and Charles Misner in the late 1950s and early developed in the 1960s. The ADM formalism allows the general theory of relativity to be formulated as a Hamiltonian system and the development of the gravitational field to be calculated for given initial conditions . This was e.g. B. important for the extraction of the gravitational wave signal from the measurement data of LIGO . Later he dealt with, among other things, quantum gravity .

In the 1970s he was one of the pioneers of string theory . With Bruno Zumino , independently of Lars Brink , Paul Howe and Paolo Di Vecchia, he gave the effect of fermionic strings and a general formulation of the effect of string theories in analogy to two-dimensional general relativity (with reparametrization invariance), later known as the Polyakov effect .

In 1994 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Arnowitt and Misner, and the Albert Einstein Medal with Misner in 2015 . He was a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Fellow as well as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University (1978) and Chalmers University of Technology (2001). He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1979 and a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA since 1994 . Since 2001 he has been an external member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino .

One of his PhD students is Lee Smolin .

literature

  • James T. Liu, Michael J. Duff, Kellogg S. Stelle, Richard P. Woodward (Eds.): Deserfest: A Celebration of the Life and Works of Stanley Deser . World Scientific, Singapore 2006, ISBN 978-981-256-082-7 (presented at a conference at the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics in Ann Arbor 2004).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage at Caltech. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Albion Lawrence: Stanley Deser's Influence on the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics. October 4, 2017, accessed November 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ Deser, Zumino A complete action for the spinning string , Physics Letters B, Volume 65, 1976, p. 369
  4. ^ Recipient of the Albert Einstein Medal. Albert Einstein Society, accessed November 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Leah Burrows: Professor Emeritus Stanley Deser awarded Einstein Medal. Brandeis University, January 14, 2015, accessed November 25, 2018 .
  6. ^ Stanley Deser, Fellow: Awarded 1966. Guggenheim Foundation, accessed November 25, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Stanley DESER. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, accessed November 25, 2018 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Deser, Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Rovno , Poland