Claudio Bunster
Claudio Bunster, formerly Claudio Teitelboim ( born April 15, 1947 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean theoretical physicist.
Life and work
Bunster studied from 1965 in Santiago Physics ( completion 1969). He dealt with the self-energy problem of electrodynamics and came across the work of John Archibald Wheeler and Richard Feynman in 1945 that had developed, bypassing the box concept a remote effect theory with advanced and retarded potentials. He came in contact with Wheeler, was admitted to Princeton University and received his PhD in 1973 at Wheeler with a thesis on the Geometrodynamics. Teitelboim was an assistant professor at Princeton, where he worked a lot with Tullio Regge. From 1977 ( when Wheeler went to Austin ) he was at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS ) in Princeton. In 1980 he followed Wheeler at the University of Texas at Austin.
In agreement with his university, he was half of the year 1984 he founded a new research institute Centro de Estudios Cientificos de Santiago ( CECS ) in Santiago. When there were problems in Austin so he switched back to the IAS and eventually went all the way to Chile. In his institute, with whom he went to Valdivia in southern Chile in 2000, now work (2008) 80 employees (grouped by 15 top researchers ) in the field of climate research and glaciology, theoretical physics and biochemistry. While the government of Eduardo Frei, he headed from 1994 to 2000 the scientific advisory body of the President, where he also took considerable influence on the scientific organization in the country ( he created as highly endowed research fellowships and funding bodies, which are awarded by a panel of experts of foreign scientists ) and the Millennium science initiative of the World Bank called with the life that supports science centers in developing countries. Bunster was also in the discussion forum for human rights actively, should hit the bridges to the military, to secure democracy ( Bunster benefited then in his glacier research logistical support of the Chilean military ).
In addition to his first work on the self-interaction problem of classical electrodynamics is Teitelboim dealt with the quantization of systems with constraints (such as gauge theories and gravity ), general relativity (eg Hamiltonian structure), supergravity and the theory of black holes .. Bunster is considered as the most influential scientists of Chile in the area the exact sciences.
Awards and Honors
Name change
Bunster grew under the name Claudio Teitelboim, the son of Communist politician and writer Volodia Teitelboim (1916 - 2008) and his wife Raquel Weitzman on. Only in 2005 he learned that Teitelboim had been kept secret only his adoptive father and the paternity of the lawyer Alvaro Bunster on the recommendation of the Communist Party. Bunster took darafhn his real father's name.
Writings
- Teitelboim, Marc Henneaux: Quantization of gauge systems, Princeton University Press 1992
- Teitelboim, Jorge Zanelli (Editor ): Black Holes and the structure of the universe, World Scientific 1998 ( Conference Chile 1997)