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| + | '''Roman W. Jackiw''' was born in Lublinec, Poland on November 8th 1939. After graduating from Swarthmore college in 1961, he pursued doctoral studies with Professors Hans Bethe and Kenneth Wilson at Cornell, receiving his Ph.D. in 1966. After a fellowship at Harvard, he joined the faculty of MIT in 1969 where he occupies the Jerrold Zacharias chair. | ||
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| + | Professor Jackiw has received Sloan and Guggenheim fellowships, along with the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1995) and the Dirac Prize and Medal (1998). He has in addition received honorary doctorates from universities in Italy, Sweden, and the Ukraine. Jackiw is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the National Academy of Sciences (USA), and the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. | ||
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| + | In addition to an extensive list of scientific pulications in theoretical and mathematical physcs, focused on particle, condensed matter, and gravitational physics, Professor Jackiw is the author of seven books, including a textbook that has been reissued as an "advanced book classic". | ||
| + | : [[Axial anomaly]]. Scholarpedia, 3(10):7302 (2008). | ||
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Featured Author: Roman W. Jackiw
Roman W. Jackiw was born in Lublinec, Poland on November 8th 1939. After graduating from Swarthmore college in 1961, he pursued doctoral studies with Professors Hans Bethe and Kenneth Wilson at Cornell, receiving his Ph.D. in 1966. After a fellowship at Harvard, he joined the faculty of MIT in 1969 where he occupies the Jerrold Zacharias chair.
Professor Jackiw has received Sloan and Guggenheim fellowships, along with the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1995) and the Dirac Prize and Medal (1998). He has in addition received honorary doctorates from universities in Italy, Sweden, and the Ukraine. Jackiw is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the National Academy of Sciences (USA), and the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.
In addition to an extensive list of scientific pulications in theoretical and mathematical physcs, focused on particle, condensed matter, and gravitational physics, Professor Jackiw is the author of seven books, including a textbook that has been reissued as an "advanced book classic".
- Axial anomaly. Scholarpedia, 3(10):7302 (2008).
(Profile adapted by Leo Trottier from one provided by the featured author)
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Prof. Roman Jackiw, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, USA
EducationSwarthmore College BA (1961), Cornell University PhD (1966) advisors: H.A. Bethe, K. WilsonPositions
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