John Henry Schwarz

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John Henry Schwarz
Born (1941-11-22) November 22, 1941 (age 82)
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John Henry Schwarz (/ʃwɔːrts/; born November 22, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist.[4] Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders of string theory.

Early life and education

He studied mathematics at Harvard College (A.B., 1962) and theoretical physics at the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., 1966), where his graduate advisor was Geoffrey Chew. For several years he was one of the very few physicists who pursued string theory as a viable theory of quantum gravity.

His work with

first superstring revolution" of 1984, which greatly contributed to moving string theory into the mainstream of research in theoretical physics.[5]

Schwarz was an assistant professor at Princeton University from 1966 to 1972. He then moved to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is currently the Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics.[6]

Awards

He was elected a member of the

Fellow of the American Physical Society (1986).[7] He was a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
in 1987.

He received the

Fundamental Physics Prize
with Michael Green "for opening new perspectives on quantum gravity and the unification of forces."

Political activism

On November 1, 2012, Schwarz published an article in the

Galileo for his heretical conclusions about the Solar System

Last year, Dr.

Susan Sisley at the University of Arizona at Phoenix attempted to conduct clinical trials of marijuana treatments for American veterans suffering from extreme post-traumatic stress disorder. She won FDA approval for a placebo-controlled pilot study on 50 veterans. Winning FDA approval would be sufficient for research on any other drug. With marijuana, however, scientists must also apply to the National Institute on Drug Abuse in order to purchase the only legal supply of marijuana. NIDA turned down Dr. Sisley's request. As their director explained, NIDA's mission is to support research into the harms, not the benefits, of marijuana. Essentially, NIDA's mission is to block any research that could undermine the Schedule I status of marijuana as a dangerous narcotic, as insisted by the DEA. ... The acceptance of science has come a long way since Galileo was arrested as a heretic for questioning the order of the Universe. Yet today, the federal government ignores scientific facts accepted around the globe—not to mention the will of the American people—to cling to outdated ideological policies and restrict marijuana research.[8]

Selected publications

References

  1. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)92021-5
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  2. ^ Green, M. B., Schwarz, J. H. (1982). "Supersymmetrical string theories." Physics Letters B, 109, 444–448.
  3. ^ Schwarz, J. H. (1972). "Physical states and pomeron poles in the dual pion model." Nuclear Physics, B46(1), 61–74.
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2010-04-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "superstringtheory.com". Archived from the original on 2016-09-09. Retrieved 2010-12-31.
  6. ^ Faculty website
  7. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". ARS. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  8. ^ "Obama, What About 'Free and Open Scientific Inquiry' for Medical Marijuana?" 'The Huffington Post', November 1, 2012

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