Daniel Friedan
Daniel Friedan | |
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Born | Daniel Harry Friedan October 3, 1948 New York City, US |
Occupation | Theoretical physicist at Rutgers University |
Known for | String theory, two-dimensional conformal field theory, quantum gravity |
Spouse | Ragnheiður Guðmundsdóttir |
Children | 3 |
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Awards | Lars Onsager Prize (2010) |
Daniel Harry Friedan (born October 3, 1948)[1] is an American theoretical physicist and one of three children of the feminist author and activist Betty Friedan.[2] He is a professor at Rutgers University.
Biography
Education and career
Friedan earned his Ph.D. from the
In 1979, he showed that the equations of motions of string theory, which are generalizations of the
Einstein equations of general relativity, emerge from the renormalization group equations for the two-dimensional field theory.[5]
Friedan has worked in
quantum computers
.
Friedan received the 2010 Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society "for seminal work on the classification and characterization of two-dimensional unitary conformal field theories of critical states."[6] He teaches at Rutgers University currently.
Personal life
Daniel is married to an Icelandic physics teacher, Ragnheiður Guðmundsdóttir. They have two daughters and one son together.
References
- ^ Judith Adler Hennessee, Betty Friedan: her life, Random House, 1999, p.50
- ^ Feminist author, icon Betty Friedan dies at 85, USA Today, February 4, 2006. Accessed August 1, 2011
- ^ American Physical Society Recognizes Rutgers Professors for Outstanding Research, Rutgers University newstelease, March 16, 2010. Accessed August 1, 2011
- ^ MacArthur `Genius Awards' To 32; Honors List Includes Washington WriterArchived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, The Washington Post, June 16, 1987
- arXiv:hep-ph/0204131.
- ^ 2010 Lars Onsager Prize Recipient, American Physical Society. Accessed August 1, 2011
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