Stanley Mandelstam

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Stanley Mandelstam (born December 12, 1928 in Johannesburg , South Africa , † June 23, 2016 ) was a South African-born American theoretical physicist .

life and work

Stanley Mandelstram was born in Johannesburg on December 12, 1928, the son of a teacher and a trader who had emigrated from Latvia . He grew up in Glencoe and attended high school in Dundee .

Mandelstam studied in Witwatersrand until 1952 and at Trinity College at Cambridge University until 1954 (Bachelor degree). In 1956 he received his doctorate from the University of Birmingham . 1960–1963 he was Professor of Mathematical Physics in Birmingham and then went to Berkeley , where he was retired in 1994. In between he was visiting professor at the University of Paris-Süd in 1979/1980 and 1984/1985 .

Mandelstam is known for his work on dispersion relations in elementary particle physics (Mandelstam representation of the scattering amplitudes through double dispersion relations, 1958). Since the 1970s he has been concerned with string theory and investigates a.o. a. the n -loop string amplitudes and the path integral description of strings. Another field of his work from the 1970s onwards were possible confinement mechanisms in Yang Mills theories . As early as the 1960s, he developed a new quantization method for Yang-Mills and gravitational theories.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1962 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1992 . In 1991 he received the Dirac Medal (ICTP) and in 1992 the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics . The Mandelstam variables were also named after him.

Fonts

  • Determination of pion nucleon scattering amplitudes from dispersion relations and unitarity . In: Physical Review . tape 112 , 1958, pp. 2344 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.112.1344 (Mandelstam variables).
  • with Wolfgang Yourgrau : Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory . Pitman 1960. New edition: Dover 2007, ISBN 0-486-45888-1 .
  • Quantum electrodynamics without potentials . In: Annals of Physics . Volume 19, 1962, pp. 1-24.
  • Quantization of the gravitational field . In: Annals of Physics . Volume 19, 1962, p. 25.
  • Feynman rules for electromagnetic and Yang-Mills fields from the gauge-independent field theoretic formulation . In: Physical Review . Volume 175, 1968, pp. 1580-1604.
  • Dual resonance models . In: Physics Reports . Volume 6, 1974, pp. 259-353.
  • General introduction to confinement . In: Physics Reports . Volume 67, 1980, pp. 109-121.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anderson Lanham: Retired UC Berkeley physics professor dies at 87. The Daily Californian, July 5, 2016, accessed February 13, 2017 : “Stanley Mandelstam, a UC Berkeley physics professor emeritus remembered for his remarkable modesty despite his sizable contribution to the field of theoretical physics, died June 23. "
  2. ^ Matthew Reisz: Stanley Mandelstam, 1928-2016. An academic described as a 'giant in theoretical physics' has died. The higher Education, August 4, 2016, accessed on February 13, 2017 (English): “Stanley Mandelstam was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 12, 1928 and brought up in the Natal Midlands, the son of a grocer who had recently emigrated from Latvia and a schoolteacher. "
  3. ^ Remembering Stanley Mandelstam, 1928-2016. Department of Physics, University of California, June 29, 2016, accessed on February 13, 2017 (English): "Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, his childhood was spent in a small town in the Natal Midlands called Glencoe."
personal data
SURNAME Mandelstam, Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2016