Roman Jackiw

Roman Jackiw Vladimir ( born November 8, 1939 in Lubliniec, Poland) is an American theoretical physicist.

Jackiw received his PhD in 1966 from Cornell University with Hans Bethe. From 1966 to 1969 he was (along with David Gross) Junior Fellow at Harvard. He is since 1969 professor at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.

Jackiw is known primarily known as co-discoverer of the axial anomaly in quantum field theory, also known as the Adler - Bell - Jackiw anomaly or chiral anomaly. The observed in nature decay of a neutral pion into two photons is forbidden classically. The quantum field theoretical mechanism that still allows the decay was of Jackiw along with John Stewart Bell and cleared simultaneously by Stephen L. Adler 1969 ( Nuovo Cimento. Series A, Volume 60, p 47). The imported by them anomalies of quantum field theory led later to predict the particle spectrum in GUTs in which anomalies of freedom is required. Later Jackiw employed, inter alia, with topological excitations in quantum field theories and soliton theories with fractional charges that were applied to solid state physics.

In 1995 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and 1998, the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ). He was Guggenheim (1977) and Sloan Fellow and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Writings

  • Hans Bethe: Intermediate Quantum Mechanics. 1968, 3rd Edition 1986, Benjamin - Cummings
  • With Sam Treiman, Edward Witten: Current algebras and anomalies. Princeton 1986
  • Diverse topics in theoretical and mathematical physics. World Scientific 1995
  • Fluid dynamics. A particle theorists view of supersymmetry, non abelian and non commutative fluid mechanics and D- branes. Springer 2002 ( online)
  • JS Bell, R. Jackiw: A PCAC puzzle: π0 → γγ in the σ -model. In: Il Nuovo Cimento. Series A, Volume 60, 1969, p 47
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