Jorge A. Swieca

Jorge André Swieca ( born December 16, 1936 in Warsaw, † 22 December 1980) was a Brazilian theoretical physicist.

Swiecas Jewish family fled during the occupation of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union via Siberia and Japan to Rio de Janeiro. In 1963 he received his doctorate at the University of Sao Paulo at Werner Güttinger ( with a work which he undertook at the Max Planck Institute for Physics). He was concerned in the 1960s and 1970s with mathematical quantum field theory, the so-called local quantum physics of the school of Rudolf Haag. In 1965 his first release with Hague, then at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Unlike many representatives of the school, he also worked to bring applications to the then-current directions of research in particle physics. With H. Ezawa, Daniel Kastler and Derek W. Robinson, he gave a mathematical justification of the Goldstonetheorems. He examined various model theories of quantum field theory, among others by Julian Schwinger and gave a rigorous treatment is occurring phenomena such as mass production and charge screening in Abelian gauge theories and persecuted ideas to explain the confinement.

Swieca was from 1959 to 1970 at the University of Sao Paulo. From 1971 he was at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio and in 1978 at the State University of Sao Carlos in Sao Paulo. He died in 1980 from complications of bypass surgery.

He received the 1968 Moinho Santista price as a second physicist ( by Jayme Tiomno ).

He was married in 1963 and had two children.