Arthur Wightman
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| Born | |
|---|---|
| Residence | USA |
| Nationality | US |
| Field | Physicist |
| Institution | Princeton |
| Alma Mater | Princeton |
| Academic Advisor | John Archibald Wheeler |
| Notable Students | Eduard Prugovecki, Barry Simon, Alan Sokal, Stephen Fulling. |
| Known for | Quantum field theory, Wightman axioms |
| Notable Prizes | Poincaré Prize (1977) |
Arthur Strong Wightman is an American mathematical physicist. He is one of the founders of quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms.
Advised by John Wheeler, his 1949 Princeton doctoral dissertation was entitled The Moderation and Absorption of Negative Pions in Hydrogen. His graduate students include Arthur Jaffe, Jerrold Marsden, and Alan Sokal.
Wightman was awarded the Poincaré Prize of the International Mathematical Physics Congress in 1997. He is currently a professor emeritus at Princeton.
[edit] External links
- Ray Streater Remarks with photo
- The Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Wightman's Poincaré Prize citation
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