Steven Frautschi
Steven C. Frautschi (
Education and employment
Frautschi graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1958, having written his dissertation on PC conservation in strong interactions and wide angle pair production and quantum electrodynamics at small distances, under the supervision of Sidney Drell. Frautschi worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the groups of Hideki Yukawa at Kyoto University and later of Geoffrey Chew at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an assistant professor at Cornell University before moving to Caltech in 1962. At Caltech he was the Executive Officer for Physics in 1988-97, and Master of Student Houses in 1997-2002. He received the Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2014.[2]
Work
Subjects of his works
In 1961, Chew and Frautschi discovered that the
In 1961, with Donald R. Yennie and Hiroshi Suura, he elucidated the role of infrared photons properly summed in high-energy QED.[4] This work was one of the keys to solving the problem of infrared divergences in gauge theories.
One of Frautschi's doctoral students at Caltech was Roger Dashen.
Publications
- 1982 Entropy in an Expanding Universe. Science 13/08/1982: Vol. 217, Issue 4560, pp. 593–599 (DOI: 10.1126/science.217.4560.593)[5]
- 1986 The Mechanical Universe, Mechanics and Heat, Advanced Edition, textbook (Steven C. Frautschi, Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein). New York: Cambridge University Press (1st pbk. ed. 2008).
Family
His daughters, Jennifer and Laura, are both professional violinists.
References
- ^ APS Fellowship, Topical Group on Energy Research and Applications
- ^ Theoretical Physicist Wins Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Caltech
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- ^ Science Mag