Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen ( born October 26, 1938 in Utrecht) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and one of the developers of the theory of supergravity.

Van Nieuwenhuizen studied mathematics and physics at the University of Utrecht, where he received his PhD Martinus JG Veltman 1971. After that, he was for two years at CERN (1969 to 1971), at the University of Paris in Orsay (1971 to 1973) and Brandeis University ( 1973-1975 ) and in 1975 at Stony Brook University, first as an Assistant Professor, from in 1977 as associate professor and from 1979 as a professor. In 2001 he was there Distinguished Professor of Physics. 1999 to 2002 he was the successor of Chen Ning Yang Director of the CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics. 1985 to 1995 he was also Teyler professor of theoretical physics at Leiden in 1983 and 1986 Visiting Professor at the University of Utrecht. He was also in 1977 a visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure and been a guest scientist at CERN (1978, 1982/83, 1992).

Nieuwenhuizen worked alongside his work on supersymmetry and supergravity, inter alia, about string theory, conformal field theories, W- gravity, nonlinear sigma models, instantons and Kaluza-Klein theories.

In 1993 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics for the development of the theory of supergravity with Sergio Ferrara and Daniel Z. Freedman, the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ) and 2006. He is a corresponding member of the Dutch and Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2004 he became a Knight of the Dutch Lion. He was an honorary professor at the Vienna University of Technology, 2005. Since 1994 he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen is married and has three children.

His doctoral counts Ergin Sezgin.

Writings

  • " Supergravity ," Physics reports, Volume 68, 1981, p.189
  • With Freedman, Ferrara, " Progress towards a theory of super gravity ", Physical Review D 13, 1976, p 3214
  • With Grisaru, Vermaseren " 1 loop renormizability of pure super gravity of Maxwell and Einstein theory in extended super gravity " Physical Review Letters, Vol 37, 1976, S.1662
  • With Freedman "Properties of super gravity ", Physical Review D 14, 1976, S.912
  • This. " Supergravity and the unification of the laws of physics", Scientific American, January 1978
  • This. "The hidden dimensions of spacetime ," Scientific American in 1985 and spectrum May 85
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