Roman Jackiw
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Roman W. Jackiw is a theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist. He was born in Poland. He got his PhD at Cornell University in 1966 under Hans Bethe and Kenneth Wilson. He has been a professor at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics since 1969.
He is famous for the discovery of various anomalies in physics, especially the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly. In 1969, Roman Jackiw and John Bell published their explanation--later expanded and clarified by Stephen Adler--of the (observed) decay of a neutral pion into two photons. Their introduction of an "anomalous" term from quantum field theory required that the sum of the charges of the elementary fermions had to be zero. This work also gave important support to the color-theory of quarks.
[edit] External links
- Dirac Medal website's description of Jackiw's 1998 prize
- Biography of John Bell, including description of his 1969 work with Jackiw
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