Curtis Callan
Curtis Callan Gove ( born October 11, 1942 in North Adams ( Massachusetts)) is an American physicist and professor at Princeton University.
He searched among others in the fields of the gauge theory, string theory (including string theory Black on curved background space - times and application of string theory to explain the entropy holes), the monopolies and the strong interaction ( among others in the 1970s on the role of instantons in confinement mechanism of QCD with David Gross and Roger Dashen ). In the 1960s he busied himself with soft- pion theorems in K -meson decay and scaling laws in the deep inelastic high-energy scattering. In 1970 he formulated the theory of renormalization group in particle physics with Kurt Symanzik new. In the 1990s, he was also involved in building an interdisciplinary research center for Genome Research at Princeton University.
The Bachelor of Science degree he obtained in 1961 at Haverford College. Later he studied at Princeton University with Sam Treiman and received his PhD in 1964. He remained there as an instructor and went in 1967 as an assistant professor at the Harvard University. 1969 to 1972 and 1975 to 1977 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1972 he returned as a professor to Princeton, where he conducts research ever since. He was in Princeton since 1986 Higgins Professor of Physics and is there since 1995, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor. 1998 to 2001 he was Chairman of the Princeton Physics Department and 2005 to 2008 he was director of the Center for Theoretical Physics. 1971 and 1980 he was a visiting professor at the University of Paris.
Known doctoral Callan are Juan Maldacena, Igor Klebanov and Peter Woit (* 1957).
2000 he received the Sakurai Prize, 2004, he was awarded the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society ( 1974), member of the National Academy of Sciences (1988 ) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2010 he has been President of the American Physical Society.