Stanley Deser

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Stanley Deser (March 19, 1931 – April 21, 2023) was an American physicist known for his contributions to general relativity. He was an emeritus Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and a senior research associate at California Institute of Technology.

Biography

Born on March 19, 1931, in Równe, Poland (now

All Souls College in Oxford
in 1977, and a Loeb Lectureship at Harvard in 1975.

In the context of

ADM mass/energy) which, in general relativity, is not trivial at all. With L. Abbott, Deser extended the notion of energy for gravity with a cosmological constant. And with Claudio Teitelboim he showed that supergravity
has positive energy.

Another of Deser's research interests was covariant

Yang-Mills, plus Dirac fermions, and plus a cosmological constant. The apparent impasse revealed by these efforts was partially overcome in 1976, following a strikingly independent approach from the contemporary work of Daniel Freedman, Sergio Ferrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, when Deser and Bruno Zumino demonstrated that a spin 3/2 field can be added to general relativity to produce a consistent, locally supersymmetric theory called supergravity
.

In 1994, Deser, along with Arnowitt and Misner, received the

Ann Arbor
, Michigan. He was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2021, one of only about 180 worldwide in all sciences.

A conference[5] in honor of Stanley Deser and the ADM collaborators was held in November 2009 at Texas A&M University on the 50th anniversary of their research.[6]

Personal life and death

Deser was married to Swedish artist Elsbeth Deser and had three children.[7] His daughter Clara Deser is a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Deser's autobiography, "Forks in the Road", was published in September 2021. He died in Pasadena, California on April 21, 2023, at the age of 92.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Stanley Deser, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
  2. ^ a b Chang, Kenneth (May 8, 2023). "Stanley Deser, Whose Ideas on Gravity Help Explain the Universe, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
  3. ^ "Dynamical Structure and Definition of Energy in General Relativity" Arnowitt, R., Deser, S., & Misner, C., The Physical Review, 116:1322-1330, 1959
  4. ^ James T. Liu, Michael J. Duff, Kellogg S. Stelle, Richard P.Woodard (Editors) "Deserfest: A Celebration of the Life and Works of Stanley Deser" (Talks at a conference at the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics in Ann Arbor 2004), World Scientific, Singapore, 2006.
  5. ^ "ADM-50: A Celebration of Current GR Innovation". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
  6. ^ R. L. Arnowitt, S. Deser and C. W. Misner, "The Dynamics of general relativity", General Relativity and Gravitation 40, 1997, 2008, gr-qc/0405109.
  7. ^ "Elsbeth Deser". Mount Sinai Obituaries and Services. Retrieved 14 December 2021.

External links

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