Stanley Mandelstam
South African theoretical physicist (1928-2016) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For an unrelated physicist with the same last name, see Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam.
Stanley Mandelstam (/ˈmændəlstæm/; 12 December 1928 – 23 June 2016) was a South African theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations.[1] The double dispersion relations were a central tool in the bootstrap program which sought to formulate a consistent theory of infinitely many particle types of increasing spin.
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Born | (1928-12-12)12 December 1928 Johannesburg, South Africa |
Died | 11 June 2016(2016-06-11) (aged 87) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of the Witwatersrand, Birmingham University, Trinity College, Cambridge |
Known for | Double dispersion relations Mandelstam variables |
Awards | Dirac Medal (1991) Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1992) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Particle physics String theory |
Institutions | University of the Witwatersrand University of California, Berkeley University of Birmingham |
Thesis | Some Contributions to the Theory and Application of the Bethe-Salpeter Equation (1956) |
Doctoral advisor | Rudolf Peierls |
Other academic advisors | Paul Taunton Matthews |
Doctoral students | Michio Kaku Charles Thorn Joseph Polchinski |
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