Stephen Adler (physicist)

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Stephen Louis Adler (born November 30, 1939 in New York City ) is an American physicist who specializes in the areas of elementary particles and field theory .

Career

Adler received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1961 and his Ph. D. from Princeton University in 1964. From 1964 to 1966 he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. He became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1966 , full professor of theoretical physics in 1969 and New Jersey Albert Einstein professor there in 1979 . In 2010 he retired .

Adler won u. a. the Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society in 1988 and the Dirac Medal (ICTP) of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in 1988. He was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974, and to the National Academy of Sciences the following year . In 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Adler's research in the areas of high-energy neutrino processes, soft pion theorems, sum rules and in particular the discovery of the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly provided important building blocks for the understanding of today's elementary particle physics. In the 1980s, Adler a. a. with monopoles in Yang-Mills theories and with induced gravity, a theory of gravitation as an effect of vacuum fluctuations , originally from Andrei Sakharov (1968).

literature

  • Stephen L. Adler: Adventures in theoretical physics. Selected papers with commentary . World Scientific, Singapore et al. 2006, ISBN 981-256-522-1 , ( World Scientific series in 20th century physics 37).
  • Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, 2012, Volume 1: A – L. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7031-8 (Volume 1), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (Complete Works ), ISSN  0083-9396 , p. 30

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Adler in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Stephen Adler: Axial Vector Vertex in Spinor Electrodynamics . In: Physical Review . Volume 177, 1969, pp. 2426-2438
  3. ↑ Stephen Adler: Einstein Gravity as a symmetry breaking effect in Quantum Field Theory . In: Reviews of Modern Physics . Volume 54, 1982, pp. 729-766
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adler, Stephen Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City