Richard Arnowitt

Richard Lewis Arnowitt ( May 3, 1928 in New York City ) is an American theoretical physicist.

Life

Arnowitt studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( Master's degree in 1948 ) and his PhD in 1953 at Harvard University ("The hyperfine structure of hydrogen" ). 1954 to 1956 he was in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study. Later he was a professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He is currently (2007) " Distinguished Professor Emeritus " at Texas A & M University in College Station, Texas.

Arnowitt is known by the Arnowitt - Deser - Misner (ADM) formulation of the equations of motion of general relativity ( and related to a new mass / energy definition - ADM mass - in this theory ), which he and Stanley Deser, and Charles W. Misner the late 1950s and developed in the early 1960s. He worked frequently with his colleagues at Northeastern University, Pran Nath, for example, in the 1960s about Stromalgebren (Current Algebras eg in chiral symmetric models of the interaction of pions in the 1970s on one of the first supergravity theories and the U (1) problem in quantum chromodynamics. He worked from the 1980s, particularly with experimental predictions of string theory, supergravity (minimal supergravity model of GUT, with Pran Nath, and Chamseddine, short mSUGRA and signals to the discovery of dark matter and of supersymmetry at the large Teilchenbeschleunigerexperimenten (such as LHC).

Arnowitt was 1975/76 Guggenheim Fellow. In 1994 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with desertion and Misner.