Ray Streater

Frederick Ray Streater (* April 21, 1936 in Three Bridges, West Sussex ) is a British theoretical and mathematical physicist.

Life and work

Streater studied from 1954 to 1957 at Imperial College, where he was in 1960 by Abdus Salam ( Rudolf Peierls and ) PhD ( The quantum theory of fields ). After that, he was in 1960 at CERN and instructor at Princeton University. In 1961 he became an assistant lecturer in 1964 Lecturer ( Physics ) and 1967 Senior Lecturer ( Mathematics ) at Imperial College. From 1969 he was professor of applied mathematics at Bedford College, University of London, and from 1984 at King's College in London. He retired in 2001. He also served as a visiting researcher at Princeton, MIT (1966 Irving Segal ), Warsaw University, Lund, the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm and at the IHES.

Streater dealt with axiomatic quantum field theory and spin-statistics relations, about which he wrote a well-known monograph by Arthur Wightman, dispersion relations, and statistical mechanics from the 1990s with information geometry.

He is a member of the International Association of Mathematical Physics and the London Mathematical Society.

Ray Streater has been married since 1962 and has three children.

Writings

• With Arthur Wightman: Spin, Statistics and All That, Benjamin 1964, 5th edition, Princeton University Press, 2000, on German appeared the older edition as BI university paperback
• Statistical dynamics. A stochastic approach to non equilibrium thermodynamics, Imperial College Press 1995 ( reprint 2009)
• As editor: The mathematics of contemporary physics, Academic Press 1972