Rod Crewther

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Rod Crewther

Born	1945
Known for	Gauge Field Theories

Rodney James Crewther (born 1945) is a physicist, specializing in the field of gauge field theories. After gaining his M.Sc at Melbourne University, Crewther was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the California Institute of Technology. He studied under the tutelage of Nobel prizewinner Murray Gell-Mann and was awarded his doctorate, after successfully defending his dissertation against the renowned theorist Richard Feynman.

After holding postdoctoral positions at the CERN and Cornell University, Rod Crewther was appointed as a senior lecturer in physics at the University of Adelaide. Having a keen interest in politics, Crewther is president of the University of Adelaide branch of the National Tertiary Education Union.^[1]. He also serves on the University Council, where he is considered a maverick and frequently rails against what he calls the corporate agenda of the university.

He designed the honours physics course "Gauge Field Theories." He also lectures on Quantum Mechanics III, Advanced Dynamics and Relativity, and Honours Quantum Field Theory. Although he no longer teaches the courses Quantum Mechanics II, Honours Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics, and Classical Fields and Mathematical Methods, his notes are followed by his successors.