Michael Green (physicist)
Michael Green | |
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Thesis | Crossing Symmetry And Duality in Strong Interactions (1970) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard J. Eden[1] |
Website | www www |
Michael Boris Green
Early life and education
Green was born the son of Genia Green and Absalom Green. He attended
Career
Following his PhD, Green did
Research
After many years in collaboration with
Awards and honours
Green has been awarded the
His nomination for the Royal Society reads
Distinguished for his outstanding contributions to quantum field theory, especially the theory of superstrings. Green's early work was largely on duality in S-matrix theory. He was the first to prove an important result on the dual model – the cancellation of the leading divergences between boson and fermion loops. He has made significant contributions to the theory of phase transitions, but is best known for his trail-blazing work, much of it in collaboration with Schwarz, on superstring theory, including the first covariant formulation of the theory. The most important results are the proofs in 1984 and 1985 of anomaly cancellation for SO (32) and E8xE8 superstring theories and of infinity cancellation in the SO (32) case. These definitive papers initiated the explosive growth of superstring theory, now one of the most active and exciting areas of fundamental theoretical physics.[14]
On 12 December 2013, Michael Green shared the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with John Henry Schwarz "for opening new perspectives on quantum gravity and the unification of forces."
Selected publications
- Green, M., John H. Schwarz, and ISBN 9780521357524.
- Superstring Theory. Vol. 2, Loop Amplitutes, Anomalies and Phenomenology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 9780521357531.
References
- ^ a b Michael Green at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c d e f "GREEN, Prof. Michael Boris". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
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- ^ Green, M. B., Schwarz, J. H. (1982). "Supersymmetrical string theories." Physics Letters B, 109, 444–448.
- ^ Times Online. Archived from the originalon 18 February 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
- ^ a b "Michael Green elected 18th Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge". University of Cambridge. 20 October 2009. Archived from the original on 25 October 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
- ^ a b Michael Green's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "Cambridge University Reporter No 6380". 18 March 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ^ Green, Michael Boris (1970). Crossing symmetry and duality in strong interactions (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Dirac Medal 1989 Presentation Ceremony Leaflet" (PDF). April 1990. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
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- S2CID 250825225.
- S2CID 15365248.
- ^ The Royal Society. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
- Spires High Energy Physics database. Retrieved 22 October 2009.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Institute of physics page at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 February 2006)
- Green, Michael B.; Schwarz, John H. (2004). "The Early Years of String Theory at the Aspen Center for Physics". Aspen Center for Physics (aspenphys.org).
- "Michael Green - Through a Glass Darkly". YouTube. GraduatePhysics. 19 August 2014.
- "Day 3: Theoretical Physics Session". YouTube. Int'l Centre for Theoretical Physics. 15 October 2014.
- "Zoomplitudes 2020: Michael Green (Cambridge)". YouTube. Brown University Department of Physics. 17 May 2020.