Stanley Mandelstam

Stanley Mandelstam ( born December 12, 1928 in Johannesburg, South Africa ) is a South Africa -born American theoretical physicist.

Life and work

Mandelstam studied in Witwatersrand until 1952 and at Trinity College, Cambridge until 1954 ( Bachelor's degree). In 1956 he received his doctorate at the University of Birmingham. 1960-1963 he was Professor of Mathematical Physics at Birmingham and then went to Berkeley, where he retired in 1994. In between, he was 1979/1980 and 1984/1985 visiting professor at the University of Paris-Sud.

Mandelstam is known for his work on dispersion relations in particle physics ( Mandelstam representation of the scattering amplitudes by double dispersion relations, 1958). Since the 1970s, he deals with string theory and examines, among other things the n -loop string amplitudes and the path integral description of strings. Another field of work by him were from the 1970s possible confinement mechanisms in Yang-Mills theories. Already in the 1960s he developed a new quantization method for Yang - Mills and gravitational theories.

He is since 1962 a Fellow of the Royal Society and also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1991 he was awarded the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ), the 1992 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. Moreover, according to him, the Mandelstam variables are named.

Writings

  • Determination of pion nucleon scattering Amplitudes from dispersion relations and unitarity. In: Physical Review. Volume 112, 1958, pp. 2344 ( Mandelstam variables, online)
  • Wolfgang Your Gray: Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory. . Pitman 1960 Reprint: Dover 2007, ISBN 0-486-45888-1.
  • Quantum electrodynamics without potentials. In: Annals of Physics. Volume 19, 1962, pp. 1-24.
  • Quantization of the gravitational field. In: Annals of Physics. Volume 19, 1962, pp. 25
  • Feynman rules for electromagnetic and Yang-Mills fields from the gauge -independent field theoretic formula tion. In: Physical Review. Volume 175, 1968, pp. 1580-1604.
  • Dual resonance models. In: Physics Reports. Volume 6, 1974, p 259-353.
  • General introduction to confinement. In: Physics Reports. Volume 67, 1980, pp. 109-121.
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