David Olive
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| Born | David Ian Olive 16 April 1937[3] |
| Died | 7 November 2012 (aged 75)[5] , England |
| Nationality | British |
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Jenny Olive (m. 1963)University of Swansea |
| Thesis | Unitarity and S-matrix theory (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Clayton Taylor[2] |
| Doctoral students | Neil Turok[2] Ed Corrigan[2] Andrew Crumey[2] |
David Ian Olive
He was professor of physics at Imperial College, London, from 1984 to 1992.[6] In 1992 he moved to Swansea University to help set up the new theoretical physics group.[4]
He was awarded the Dirac Prize and Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1997.[1] He was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[4] He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1987, and appointed CBE in 2002.[6]
Biography
Early life and education
David Olive was born in
He married Jenny in 1963; they had 2 daughters and a granddaughter.
Career
After a short postdoctoral appointment at the
In 1971, Olive made what he has described as a "momentous personal decision" to sacrifice his tenured position in Cambridge and move to the
In 1977, Olive returned to the UK to take up a lectureship at
This body of work from 1973 to 1983 was recognised with the award of the prestigious Dirac Medal in 1997 to Goddard and Olive "in recognition of their far-sighted and highly influential contributions to theoretical physics. They have contributed many crucial insights that shaped our emerging understanding of string theory and have also had a far-reaching impact on our understanding of 4-dimensional field theory.” The Dirac Medal also recognised a second major line of research pioneered by Olive, on duality symmetries in gauge field theories, this work was to play a key role in later developments of
In 1992, Olive left Imperial to take up a research professorship in mathematics and physics at
Selected publications
Books
- Eden, R. J.; Landshoff, P. V.; Olive, D. I.; Polkinghorne, J. C. (1966). The Analytic S-Matrix (2002 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 49737553.
- Olive, D.; West, P. C. (8 July 1999). Duality and Supersymmetric Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 40762790.
- Olive, D. (12 April 2012). "From Dual Fermion to Superstring". In Cappelli, Andrea; Castellani, Elena; Colomo, Filippo; Di Vecchia, Paolo (eds.). The Birth of String Theory. Cambridge University Press. OCLC 939628805.
- Pais, A.; Jacob, M.; Olive, D. I.; Atiyah, M. F. (1998). Goddard, P. (ed.). Paul Dirac: The Man and His Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 833170188.
Academic papers
- Goddard, P.; Nuyts, J.; Olive, D. (1977). "Gauge theories and magnetic charge" (PDF). Nuclear Physics B. 125 (1): 1–28. ISSN 0550-3213.
- Gliozzi, F.; Scherk, J.; Olive, D. (1977). "Supersymmetry, supergravity theories and the dual spinor model" (PDF). Nuclear Physics B. 122 (2): 253–290. ISSN 0550-3213.
- Montonen, C.; Olive, D. (1977). "Magnetic monopoles as gauge particles?" (PDF). Physics Letters B. 72 (1): 117–120. ISSN 0370-2693.
- Witten, E.; Olive, D. (1978). "Supersymmetry algebras that include topological charges". Physics Letters B. 78 (1): 97–101. ISSN 0370-2693.
See also
References
Citations
- ^ a b ICTP 1997.
- ^ a b c d MGP.
- ^ a b Debretts 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Swansea University 2012.
- ^ The Times 2012a.
- ^ a b The Times 2012b.
- ^ Goddard et al. 1977.
- ^ Witten & Olive 1978.
- ^ SGF&D 2004.
Sources
- Edward Corrigan and Peter Goddard (16 September 2020). "David Ian Olive. 16 April 1937—7 November 2012". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 69: 467–498. S2CID 221714243.
- Swansea University (2012). "Professor David Olive Obituary". swansea.ac.uk. Swansea: Swansea University. Archived from the original on 19 February 2017.
- "Prof David Olive, CBE, FRS". Debretts. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- "David Ian Olive Obituary". The Times. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- "Professor David Olive. The Times. p54. 19 Dec 2012".
- International Centre for Theoretical Physics. "Dirac Medallists 1997". ictp.it. ICTP. Archived from the original on 19 February 2017.
- "David Ian Olive". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Archived from the original on 19 February 2017.
- "Strings, Gauge Fields and Duality". pyweb.swan.ac.uk. Swansea University. 2004. Archived from the original on 23 December 2012.
External links
- "Olive, David Ian". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105903. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Scientific publications of David Olive on INSPIRE-HEP
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