John Henry Schwarz

John Henry Schwarz ( born November 22, 1941 in North Adams ( Massachusetts)) is an American theoretical physicist. Together with Michael Green, he is considered the father of the super - string theory.

Schwarz studied at Harvard University (Bachelor 1962) and received his doctorate in 1966 at the University of California, Berkeley. After that, he was at Princeton University, first as Instructor and Lecturer, in 1969 as Assistant Professor. In 1972 he went to Caltech as a researcher (Research Associate, Senior Research Associate from 1981 ). In 1985 he became a professor there. From 1989 he was there Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics. He was a visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure (1978 /79), at Queen Mary College in London (1983, in Green ), at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1986, 1993, 1998 ) and Rutgers University ( 1995). From 1982 he was a member of the Aspen Center of Physics.

For many years he was one of the few physicists who operated string theory as a possible unified theory of interactions (including gravity ). His work with Michael Green to the quantum theory of superstrings with the Green -Schwarz mechanism of cancellation of anomalies in superstring theory has led to the so-called First superstring revolution of 1984, which did much to that string theory found its way into the mainstream of theoretical physics.

In 2002 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and 1989, the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ). In 1987 he was MacArthur Fellow. From 1997 he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. For 2014, the Physics him Frontiers Prize and the Fundamental Physics Prize was awarded.

Writings

• Michael Boris Green, Edward Witten: Superstring Theory, 2 volumes, Cambridge University Press 1987. 1 Introduction. Cambridge [ua ], ISBN 0-521-32384-3, ISBN 0-521-35752-7.
• 2 Loop Amplitudes, anomalies and phenomenology. Cambridge [ua ], ISBN 0-521-32999- X, ISBN 0-521-35753-5.