Daniel Z. Freedman

Daniel Z. Freedman ( born 1939 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American theoretical physicist who is a co-founder of the theory of supergravity.

Life

Freedman studied at Wesleyan University and at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where he received his doctorate in 1964. 1964-1965 he was at Imperial College, London, 1965-1967 at the University of California, Berkeley, 1967-1968 at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. In 1968 he was assistant professor, associate professor in 1970 and from 1975 professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. From 1980 he was professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is also Professor of Physics since 2001. 1974 and 1985 he was a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Freedman developed in 1976 with Peter van Nieuwenhuizen and Sergio Ferrara at the University of Stony Brook, the theory of supergravity, for which he received in Trieste and in 2006 the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1993 with both the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ) of the ICTP. He worked also on the AdS / CFT correspondence.

Freedman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.