Sidney Coleman | |
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Born | |
Died | November 18, 2007 | (aged 70)
Alma mater | Illinois Institute of Technology (B.Sc. 1957) Caltech (Ph.D. 1962) |
Known for | Coleman theorem Coleman–Mandula theorem Coleman–Weinberg potential Q-ball |
Awards | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Quantum field theory |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | Murray Gell-Mann |
Doctoral students | Ian Affleck Mark Alford Carl M. Bender Jacques Distler David Griffiths Jeffrey Mandula Stephen Parke Leonard Parker David Politzer Lee Smolin Paul Steinhardt Erick Weinberg Anthony Zee see [1] |
Other notable students | Edward Witten[2] |
Sidney Richard Coleman (7 March 1937 – 18 November 2007) was an American theoretical physicist noted for his research in high-energy physics.