Stanley Deser
American physicist (1931–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stanley Deser (March 19, 1931 – April 21, 2023) was an American physicist known for his contributions to general relativity. He was an emeritus Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and a senior research associate at California Institute of Technology.
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Stanley Deser | |
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Born | (1931-03-19)March 19, 1931 |
Died | April 21, 2023(2023-04-21) (aged 92) Pasadena, California, U.S. |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | Harvard University (Ph.D) |
Known for | ADM formalism Boulware–Deser ghost Quantum gravity Pure 4D N = 1 supergravity Conformal anomaly 2+1 dimensional gravities and Chern–Simons quantum field theory Partially massless systems in anti-de Sitter space |
Awards | Einstein Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize, Guggenheim Fellow,[1] Fulbright Fellow, Fellow of the American Physical Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Italy |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology, Brandeis University |
Doctoral advisor | Julian Seymour Schwinger |
Notable students | Lee Smolin |
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