Suraj N. Gupta

Suraj Narayan Gupta ( born December 1, 1924 in Haryana, Punjab, British India) is an Indian- American theoretical physicist who deals with quantum field theory.

Gupta received his doctorate in 1951 at Cambridge University ( Master's degree in 1946, St. Stephens College) and was 1948/9 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Dublin. He was also at Argonne National Laboratory and at the National Research Council of Canada. 1951 to 1953, he served as ICI Fellow at the University of Manchester. 1953 to 1956 he was a visiting professor at Purdue University and from 1956 professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. There he is Distinguished Professor of Physics.

Gupta led 1950 simultaneously with and independently of Konrad Bleuler the Gupta Bleuler quantization method in quantum electrodynamics ( QED ) that realizes the covariant Lorentz gauge condition on an indefinite metric in the Hilbert space of states. He also created some of the first experiments, the equations of general relativity from quantum field theory for a massless spin 2 particles originate ( graviton ) which couples to a resultant matter-energy -momentum tensor to derive. Similar work was carried out by Robert Kraichnan ( published until 1955) and later in the 1960s, Richard Feynman, Steven Weinberg. During the 1940s Later, he worked on various areas of quantum field theory and elementary particle physics, including quantum chromodynamics and quarkonium.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Indian National Academy of Sciences.

Writings

• Quantum Electro Dynamics, Gordon and Breach 1977

Comments

• Physicist ( 20th century)
• Indian
• Born in 1924
• Man