Alexander Markovich Polyakov

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Alexander M. Polyakov
high energy physics
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Doctoral advisorKaren Ter-Martirosian

Alexander Markovich Polyakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ма́ркович Поляко́в; born 27 September 1945) is a Russian theoretical physicist, formerly at the Landau Institute in Moscow and, since 1989, at Princeton University, where he is the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus.[1][2]

Important discoveries

Polyakov is known for a number of fundamental contributions to

D-branes
. Other insightful conjectures that came years or even decades before active work by others include integrability of gauge and string theories and certain ideas about turbulence.

Very early in his career, in a 1965 student work, Polyakov suggested (with Alexander Migdal) a dynamical Higgs mechanism, slightly after but independently[7] from the publications of Peter Higgs and others. The paper was delayed by the Editorial Office of JETP, and was published only in 1966.[8]

Honors and awards

Alexander Polyakov was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1986, the Lorentz Medal in 1994, the Oskar Klein Medal in 1996, the Harvey Prize in 2010, the Lars Onsager Prize (together with A. Belavin and A. Zamolodchikov) in 2011 and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2013. On 19 November 2020 the German Physical Society announced it would award Alexander Polyakov the 2021 Max Planck Medal.

Polyakov was elected to the

National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2005.[11]
[12]

Political positions

In February-March 2022, he signed an open letter by Russian scientists condemning the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,[13] and another open letter by Breakthrough Prize laureates with the same message.[14]

Famous quotes

“The garbage of the past often becomes the treasure of the present (and vice versa).”[15]

“There are no tables for path integrals.” (quoted in [16])

“I wanted to learn about elementary particles by studying boiling water.” [17] (paraphrased in [18])

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Princeton celebrates Polyakov's 60th". CERN Courier (Mar 1): 2. 2006. Archived from the original on 2011-07-09. Retrieved 2007-09-22.
  2. ^ "Alexander Polyakov | Department of Physics".
  3. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(75)90163-X
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  4. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(77)90086-4
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  5. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(81)90743-7
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  6. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(84)90052-X
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  7. arXiv:hep-th/9211140
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  8. ^ A. A. Migdal and A. M. Polyakov, "Spontaneous Breakdown of Strong Interaction Symmetry and Absence of Massless Particles" Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, Soviet Physics JETP, July 1966
  9. ^ Alexander M. Polyakov. Site of RAS
  10. ^ Alexander Polyakov. Académie des sciences
  11. ^ Polyakov, Alexandre. NAS Section: Physics
  12. ^ Dirac Medalist Elected to NAS Archived 2007-08-16 at the Wayback Machine. ICTP News. 9/5/2005
  13. ^ "Открытое письмо российских учёных и научных журналистов против войны с Украиной" [An open letter from Russian scientists and scientific journalist against the war in Ukraine] (in Russian). 24 February 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  14. ^ An open letter from Breakthrough Prize laureates
  15. ISBN 978-3-7186-0393-0
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  16. ISBN 978-0-387-94286-5
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  17. ^ Polyakov, Alexander (2003). "Interview with Alexander Polyakov". Dibner Institute for the history of science and technology. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  18. Institut de physique théorique - IPhT Saclay
    . Retrieved 2019-10-16.

External links

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