- Edward Witten
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is one of the world's leading researchers in string theory (as the founder of M-theory) and quantum field theory.
- Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind (born 1940) is the Felix Bloch professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University in the field of string theory and quantum field theory. Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory for his early contributions to the String Theory model of particle physics.
- Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor at Arizona State University. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology.
- Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian-born physicist who has worked in Italy, the USA and France. He is currently at the Université de la Méditerranée and the Centre de Physique Theorique in Marseille, France. He is also affiliated Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh, USA and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He graduated in 1986, at the University of Padova, Italy.
- Bert Schroer
Bert Schroer (born November 10 1933 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany) is a German mathematical physicist, currently a visiting professor in Rio de Janeiro and an emeritius professor in Berlin, who is known for his work on algebraic quantum field theory, braid groups, infraparticles, and other issues related to quantum field theory.
- Detlev Buchholz
Detlev Buchholz is a theoretical physicist at Gottingen University. He investigates quantum field theory, especially algebraic quantum field theory. His contributions include the concept of infraparticles. Using the methods of Tomita-Takesaki theory he obtained the split property, a strong result about the locality of the theory, from nuclearity conditions of the theory
- Matt Visser
Matt Visser is a mathematics Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. Some of his research interests include General Relativity, Quantum Field Theory, and Cosmology. Visser has produced a large number of research papers on the subject of wormholes, gravitational horizons and notably the emerging subject of acoustic metrics. He is the author of the reference book on the current state of wormhole theory, …
- Anthony Zee
Anthony Zee is a Chinese American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California at Santa Barbara, California. Professor Zee has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific publications and many books. He has studied particle physics, anomalies in physics, random matrix theory, superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect, and other issues in theoretical physics, …
- Pascual Jordan
Pascual Jordan (b. October 18, 1902 in Hanover, Germany; d. July 31, 1980 in Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany) was a theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. Jordan's great-grandfather Pascual Jorda was a Spanish nobleman and cavalry officer who served with the British during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
- Roman Jackiw
Roman W. Jackiw is a theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist. Born in Poland, Jackiw received his PhD from Cornell University in 1966 under Hans Bethe and Kenneth Wilson. He has been a professor at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics since 1969. Jackiw is famous for the discovery of the so-called axial anomaly, also known as Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly, also known as the Chiral anomaly. In 1969, Roman Jackiw and John Stewart Bell published their explanation, …
- Alexander Polyakov
Alexander M. Polyakov (born 27 September 1945) is a theoretical physicist, formerly at the Landau Institute in Moscow, currently at Princeton University. He is known for a number of basic contributions to quantum field theory, including work on what is now called the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole in non-abelian gauge theory, independent from Gerard 't Hooft. His paper "Infinite conformal symmetry in two-dimensional quantum field theory", with A. A. Belavin, …
- Barry Simon
Barry Simon is an eminent American mathematical physicist and the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (particularly Schrödinger operators), including the connections to atomic and molecular physics. He has authored more than 300 publications on mathematics and physics.
- James Glimm
James Gilbert Glimm is an American mathematical physicist, and Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1959; his advisor was Richard Kadison. He has been noted for contributions to C*-algebras, quantum field theory, partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, scientific computing, the modeling of petroleum reservoirs, and geometric models for structural biology.
- Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg is a physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv.org e-print archive. Since 2001, he has been a professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University. The pre-print archive was developed while he was a member of staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990-2001. He has been awarded the P.A.M. (physics astronomy math) Award from the Special Libraries Association, named a Lingua Franca "Tech 20", …
- Robert Mills
Robert L. Mills (April 15, 1927 - October 27, 1999) was a physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory. While sharing an office at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in 1954, Chen Ning Yang and Mills proposed a tensor equation for what are now called Yang-Mills fields. This equation reduces to Maxwell's Equations as a special case, …
- Michael Peskin
Michael Peskin is an American theoretical physicist. He was an undergraduate at Harvard University and obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 at Cornell University studying under Kenneth Wilson. He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1977-1980. He is currently a professor in the theory group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Peskin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.
- Rudolf Haag
Rudolf Haag is a German physicist. He is best known for his contributions to the axiomatic formulation of quantum field theory, namely the Haag-Kastler axioms, and a central no-go theorem in QFT, Haag's theorem - namely the nonexistence of the so-called U-Operator, which connects incoming and outgoing field operators in interacting quantum field theories. Haag studied Physics at Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, now the University of Stuttgart, …
- Yakir Aharonov
Yakir Aharonov was born in 1932 in Haifa, Israel. He is a physicist specialising in Quantum Physics and holds a joint professorship at Tel Aviv University, Israel and the University of South Carolina, America since 1973. In the Fall of 2006, he joined the newly formed Center for Quantum Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. In honor of his arrival at Mason, the Aharonov Lecture Series was established.
- Carl M. Bender
Carl M. Bender is Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his A.B. in 1964 from Cornell University, where he graduated summa cum laude and with Distinction in All Subjects. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D in physics from Harvard University in 1965 and 1969, respectively. Bender specializes in quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, black holes, global warming and theoretical physics.
- Kenneth G. Wilson
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American theoretical physicist. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann. He joined Cornell University in 1963 in the Department of Physics as a junior faculty member, becoming a full professor in 1970. His brother David is also a Professor at Cornell in the department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.
- Giorgio Parisi
Giorgio Parisi (Rome, August 4 1948-) is an influential Italian theoretical physicist. He is best known for his works concerning statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and various aspects of Physics, Mathematics and Science in general. Giorgio Parisi's research focused mainly on disordered systems, in particular on spin glass modelling. He also found many applications of spin glass theory to optimization theory, Biology and Immunology.
- Simon Donaldson
Simon Kirwan Donaldson, born in Cambridge in 1957, is an English mathematician famous for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds. Donaldson gained a BA in mathematics from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1979, and in 1980 began postgraduate work at Worcester College, Oxford, first under Nigel Hitchin and later under Atiyah's supervision. Still a graduate student, Donaldson soon proved in 1982 a result that would establish his fame.
- Arthur Wightman
Arthur Strong Wightman is an American mathematical physicist. He is one of the founders of quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms. Advised by John Wheeler, his 1949 Princeton doctoral dissertation was entitled "The Moderation and Absorption of Negative Pions in Hydrogen". His graduate students include Arthur Jaffe, Jerrold Marsden, and Alan Sokal.
- John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell (June 28 1928 - October 1 1990) was a physicist, and the originator of Bell's Theorem, one of the most important theorems in quantum physics. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and graduated in experimental physics at the Queen's University of Belfast, in 1948. He went on to complete a PhD in Birmingham, specialising in nuclear physics and quantum field theory. His career began with the British Atomic Energy Agency, in Malvern, Britain, …
- Jan Smit
Jan Smit is a Dutch theoretical physicist. During his PhD at UCLA with professor Finkelstein he made some early contributions to lattice formulation of quantum field theory around 1972, which was a year before Kenneth Wilson, and two years before Alexander Polyakov. However, he encountered some problems with fermion doubling which he could not solve at the moment.
- C.R. Hagen
Carl Richard Hagen is a professor of particle physics at the University of Rochester. He is most noted for his co-discovery of the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with Gerald Guralnik and Tom W. B. Kibble. Professor Hagen's research interests are in the field of Theoretical High Energy Physics, primarily in the area of quantum field theory. Work in recent years has been concerned with such topics as the soluble two dimensional theories, Chern-Simons field theory, …
- Gerald Feinberg
Gerald Feinberg was an American physicist and futurist. He coined the term tachyon for hypothetical faster-than-light particles and analysed their quantum field properties, predicted the existence of the muon neutrino and advocated cryonics as a public service. He was a member of the Foresight Institute's advisory panel.
- Heinz Pagels
Heinz Rudolf Pagels (1939 - July 23, 1988) was an American physicist. He was an adjunct professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director of the New York Academy of Sciences and president of the International League for Human Rights. He is best known for his popular science books "The Cosmic Code" (1982), "Perfect Symmetry" (1985), and "The Dreams of Reason: The Rise of the Sciences of Complexity" (1988).
- Bruno Zumino
Bruno Zumino is an Italian theoretical physicist and emeritus faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He got his bachelor degre from the University of Rome in 1945. He is famous for the discovery of Wess-Zumino model in supersymmetric quantum field theories and Wess-Zumino-Witten model in conformal field theories.
- Walter Heitler
Walter Heinrich Heitler was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He brought chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
- Anton Kapustin
Anton Kapustin is a professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology. His interests lie in quantum field theory and string theory. He has also done pioneering work in non-commutative geometry. His celebrated recent work with Edward Witten rephrases the geometric version of the Langlands conjecture in terms of certain dualities in supersymmetric gauge theories.
- Massimo Porrati
Massimo Porrati (born Genova, Italy) is a professor of physics, and a member of the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, at New York University. He graduated from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy with a "Diploma di Scienze" degree in 1985. Later he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and UC Berkeley in USA. He was a research scientist at the INFN section in Pisa, Italy, in collaboration with CERN, before joining NYU in 1992.
- Kurt Symanzik
Kurt Symanzik was a German physicist working in Quantum field theory.
- Ray Streater
Ray F. Streater (b. 1936) is a British physicist, and professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics at King's College London. He is best known for co-authoring a text on quantum field theory, the 2000 "PCT, Spin and Statistics and All That."
- Igor Klebanov
Igor R. Klebanov is a theoretical physicist whose research is centered on relations between string theory and quantum gauge field theory. Born in Russia, he emigrated to the U.S. as a teenager. He received his undergraduate education at MIT, and his Ph.D. degree at Princeton University as a student of Curtis Callan in 1986. In his thesis he made advances in the Skyrme model of hadrons. Klebanov worked as a post-doc at SLAC.
- Giuliano Preparata
Giuliano Preparata, (Padova, Italy, 1942 - Frascati, Italy, 2000) was an Italian physicist. He attended the High School Umberto I of Rome (the same as Enrico Fermi), and graduated in Theoretical Physics with honors in 1964. The following year he was in Florence with a CNR grant, later to become appointed as Professor. From 1967 to 1972 he taught at most prestigious American Universities: Princeton University, Harvard University, Rockefeller New York University.
- Laura Mersini
Dr. Laura Mersini is a theoretical physicist-cosmologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since January 2004. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Tirana in her native Albania, and she was awarded a PhD in 2000 by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has worked on a variety of topics on the particle physics-cosmology interface.
- Bunji Sakita
Bunji Sakita was a Japanese-American theoretical physicist who was an important figure in the world of physics. He made important contributions in quantum field theory, superstring theory and discovered supersymmetry in 1971. He was a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the City College of New York.
- Tom W. B. Kibble
Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble is a senior research investigator at The Blackett Laboratory, at Imperial College London, UK. His research interests are in quantum field theory, especially the interface between high-energy particle physics and cosmology. He has worked on mechanisms of symmetry breaking, phase transitions and the topological defects (monopoles, cosmic strings or domain walls) that can be formed.
- Gerald Guralnik
Gerald Stanford Guralnik is a professor of physics at Brown University. He is most famous for his (co-)discovery of the Higgs mechanism with C.R. Hagen and Tom W. B. Kibble. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and specializes in Elementary Particle Theory, most notably in developing computational algorithms for numerical Quantum Field Theory.