Gabriele Veneziano
Gabriele Veneziano | |
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Born | Florence, Italy | 7 September 1942
Alma mater | University of Florence Weizmann Institute of Science |
Known for | Veneziano amplitude Witten–Veneziano mechanism String theory String cosmology |
Awards | Dirac Medal (2014) James Joyce Award (2009) Tomassoni award (2009) Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture (2007) Albert Einstein Medal (2006) Enrico Fermi Prize (2005) Heineman Prize (2004) Pomeranchuk Prize (1999) Racah Lecture (1975) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | CERN; Collège de France |
Gabriele Veneziano (/ˌvɛnətsiˈænoʊ/;[citation needed] Italian: [venetˈtsjaːno]; born 7 September 1942)[1] is an Italian theoretical physicist widely considered the father of string theory.[2][3] He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and held the Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France in Paris from 2004 to 2013, until the age of retirement there.[2]
Life
Gabriele Veneziano was born in Florence. In 1965, he earned his
Between 1968 and 1972 he worked at
Research
Gabriele Veneziano first formulated the foundations of string theory in 1968 when he discovered a string picture that could describe the interaction of strongly interacting particles.[4][5][6] Veneziano discovered that the Euler Beta function, interpreted as a scattering amplitude, has many of the features needed to explain the physical properties of strongly interacting particles. This amplitude, known as the Veneziano amplitude, is interpreted as the scattering amplitude for four open string tachyons. In retrospect this work is now considered the founding of string theory although at the time it was not apparent the string picture would lead to a new theory of quantum gravity.
Veneziano's work led to intense research to try to explain the
In 1991, he published a paper
Society memberships
- National Academy of Sciences of Turin (1994)
- Lincei National Academy (1996)
- French Academy of Sciences (2002)
Awards
- Pomeranchuk Prize, 1999
- Gold medal della Repubblica Italiana come Benemerito della Cultura, 2000
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, from the American Physical Society, 2004
- Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physical Society, 2005
- Albert Einstein Medal, Albert Einstein Institute, Bern, Switzerland, 2006
- Oskar Klein Medal, 2007
- Commendatore al merito della Repubblica Italiana, 2007
- James Joyce Award, University College Dublin, 2009
- Felice Pietro Chisesi and Caterina Tomassoni Prize, 2009
- Dirac Medal by ICTP, 2014
- Honorary doctorate, Swansea University, 2015[8]
- Friedel-Volterra Prize, by SIF and SFP, 2016–2017
References
- ^ Biography Archived 31 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine on the Collège de France website
- ^ a b "biography and bibliography". College de France. Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
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- ^ "Professor Gabriele Veneziano". www.swansea.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 February 2020.