Miguel Angel Virasoro

For the philosopher see Miguel Ángel Virasoro.

Miguel Angel Virasoro is an Argentinian physicist who did most of his work in Italy. The Virasoro algebra is named after him.

He was a director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) from 1995 to 2002.

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M. A. Virasoro, Subsidiary conditions and ghosts in dual-resonance models Phys. Rev. , D1 (1970) pp. 2933–2936. This is the paper where the Virasoro algebra was first introduced into string theory.

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