Sidney Coleman

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Sidney Richard Coleman (b. 7 March 1937) is an eminent theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann, receiving his PhD from Caltech in 1962.

He is professor emeritus at Harvard University and the author of the classic particle physics text Aspects of Symmetry, which is a collection of lectures delivered at the International School for Subnuclear Physics in Erice, Sicily.

Some of his best known works are Coleman-Mandula theorem and Coleman theorem.

Coleman's former students include
Robert Socolow 1964
Jeffrey Mandula 1966
Leonard Parker 1967
Stephen Fels 1968
Carl Bender 1969
Arnold Cantor 1970
Anthony Zee 1970
John Mansfield 1970
David Griffiths 1970
Lawrence Thebaud 1971
Wu-Yang Tsai 1971
Erick Weinberg 1973
David Politzer 1974
James Butler 1974
Eldad Gildener 1975
Paul Steinhardt 1978
Ian Affleck 1979
Frank DeLuccia 1979
Lee Smolin 1979
Gerard Sobelman 1979
Stephen Parke 1980
Fred Posner 1980
Thedoros Tomaras 1980
Bernard Grossman 1981
Ahmed Abouelsaood 1984
Philip Nelson 1984
Richard Woodard 1984
Gregory Moore 1985
Minos Axenides 1987
Jacques Distler 1987
Robert Mawhinney 1987
Alexander Safian 1987
Brian Hill 1988
Paul Renteln 1988
Mark Alford 1990
John March-Russel 1990
Katherine Benson 1991
Shane Hughes 1993
Stelios Smirnakis 1997
Nathan Salwen 2001

[edit] References

• Aspects of Symmetry, Sidney Coleman, Cambridge University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-521-31827-0

[edit] External links

• Sidneyfest 2005 - physicists' celebration of Sidney Coleman's life