Pierre Ramond

Pierre Ramond ( born January 31, 1943 in Neuilly -sur -Seine ) is a French -born American theoretical physicist who works mainly on string theory and quantum field theory.

Ramond began studying engineering at Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJIT ), where in 1965 he earned his bachelor 's degree. He then studied physics as an NDEA Fellow at Syracuse University, where he received his doctorate in 1969. Until 1971 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Fermilab and from 1971 Instructor at Yale University, where he was an Assistant Professor in 1973. From 1975 he was RAMillikan Senior Fellow at Caltech and from 1979 research associate at Caltech. In 1980 he became a professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville since 1999 as a Distinguished Professor. In 2007 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Ramond developed independently by André Neveu and John Schwarz, the first string theory for fermions ( NSR string). This theory was already two-dimensional ( " world areas " - ) supersymmetry (proposed so before the discovery of supersymmetry in four -dimensional space-time ). Later he worked inter alia to with GUTs and the mechanisms of mass generation of elementary particles in GUTs.

In 1985 he was Guggenheim Fellow. In 1992 he was awarded the Boris Pregel Award of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2004, he received the Oskar Klein Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the University of Stockholm and the 2007 Lise Meitner Prize from the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers Institute of Technology. 1996 to 1998 he was president of the Aspen Center for Physics, whose board he is.

Writings

• Field Theory - a modern primer. Addison -Wesley, Frontiers in Physics, 1981, 2nd edition, Westview Press 2001, ISBN 0201304503
• Journeys Beyond the Standard Model. Perseus Books, 1999, ISBN 0738201162