Willy Fischler
Willy Fischler (* 1949 in Antwerp ) is an American theoretical physicist from Belgium who is particularly concerned with string theory and elementary particle physics.
Fischler received his PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1976 . He was at the University of Pennsylvania and is the Jane and Robert Blumberg Centennial Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin , where he is part of Steven Weinberg's theory group . In the early 1980s he was also at the Institute for Advanced Study .
In 1981, together with Michael Dine and Mark Srednicki , he proposed a modification of the Peccei - Quinn mechanism to solve the CP problem of strong interaction with light axion that only weakly interacts with ordinary matter ( invisible axion ). In the 1980s he also worked with Dine and others on dynamic breaking of supersymmetry.
With Stephen Shenker , Tom Banks and Leonard Susskind , he co-authored a proposal for M-theory in 1997 in a non-perturbation-theoretical formulation as a matrix model in an 11-dimensional space-time.
Fischler, who originally wanted to study medicine, works part-time as a (state-certified) paramedic in Marble Falls .
Web links
- Homepage
- Symposium on the 60th birthday of Fischler and Banks at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile on the University of Texas website
- ↑ Michael Dine, Fischler, Mark Srednicki A simple solution of the strong CP Problem with a harmless axion , Physics Letters B, Volume 104, 1981, p. 995
- ↑ T. Banks, W. Fischler, SH Shenker, L. Susskind M Theory As A Matrix Model: A Conjecture . Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 55, 1997, p. 5112, online
- ↑ Fischler as Paramedic ( Memento from February 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Fischler, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |