Sergio Ferrara

Sergio Ferrara ( born 2 May 1945 in Rome ) is an Italian theoretical physicist who is a co-founder of the theory of supergravity.

Ferrara received his doctorate in 1968 at the University of Rome and worked as CNEN and INFN researcher at the National Research Laboratory in Frascati, as a CNRS visiting scientist at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and at CERN, where in 1981 a member of the Theory Department and from 1986 Senior Staff member was. In 1980 he became Professor of Theoretical Physics in Italy and in 1985 professor at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA).

Ferrara in 1974, was involved in the development of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories. In addition, in 1976, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen and Daniel Z. Freedman developed the theory of supergravity, for which he 1993, the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ) of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP ) in Trieste and 2006 with both the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics was awarded. In the 1990s he worked, inter alia, to with duality symmetries in string theory and M- theory. In 1995 he formulated with Renata Kallosh and Andrew Strominger the attractor mechanism for extremal black holes, which played a role in the microscopic interpretation of the Hawking entropy of such black holes in string theory by Strominger and Cumrun Vafa.

In 2005 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tor Vergata in Rome and received with Gabriele Veneziano and Bruno Zumino the Enrico Fermi Award of the Italian Physical Society. In 2008 he was awarded the Amaldi Medal and he received an ERC Advanced Research Grant.

Writings

  • With Pierre Fayet Supersymmetry, Physics Reports, Vol 43, 1977, p 249-334 ( earlier review article )
  • With Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Daniel Z. Freedman Progress towards a theory of super gravity, Physical Review D, Volume 13, 1976, p 3214
  • With Joel Scherk, Bruno Zumino Algebraic properties of extended super gravity theories, Nuclear Physics B, Volume 121, 1977, p 393
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