Peter A. Carruthers

Peter Ambler Carruthers ( born 1935 in Lafayette, Indiana; † August 3, 1997 in Tucson ) was an American theoretical physicist.

Carruthers studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology ( completion in 1957 ) and his doctorate in 1960 at Cornell University under Hans Bethe. He then became a professor at Cornell and 1973-1980 Head of the Theory Department at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. After that, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of the Laboratory of group theory for elementary particle physics and quantum field theory. In 1986 he moved to the University of Arizona, where he was and director of the " Center for the Study of Complex Systems " Head of the Physics faculty. In 1983 he was one of the founders of the Santa Fe Institute.

In addition to elementary particle physics and quantum field theory ( in particular last Vielteilchenproduktion of hadrons ), he worked on nonlinear dynamics, quantum optics, hydrodynamics, astrophysics (statistics and dynamics of galaxies).

He was married and had two daughters.

Writings

• Introduction to unitary symmetry. Interscience, 1966
• With Robert Brout: Lectures on the many electron problem-. Interscience, 1963
• Spin and isospin in particle physics. Gordon and Breach, New York 1971