David Olive
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David Olive CBE, FRS, FLSW |
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| Born |
16 April 1937 Middlesex, England |
| Died | 7 November 2012 (aged 75) Cambridge, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
University of Cambridge Carnegie Institute of Technology CERN Imperial College London University of Swansea |
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| Thesis | Unitarity and S-matrix theory (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Clayton Taylor |
| Doctoral students |
Neil Turok Edward Corrigan Andrew Crumey |
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| Notable awards | Dirac Medal |
| Spouse | Jenny Olive (m. 1963) |
| Children | 2 |
David Ian Olive (/ˈɒlɪv/; 16 April 1937 – 7 November 2012) CBE FRS FLSW, was a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to string theory and duality theory, he is particularly known for his work on the GSO projection and Montonen–Olive duality.
He was Professor of physics at Imperial College, London from 1984 to 1992. In 1992 he moved to Swansea University to help set up the new theoretical physics group.
He was awarded the Dirac Prize and Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1997. He was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1987, and appointed CBE in 2002.
David Olive was born in Middlesex in 1937 and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and Edinburgh University. He then moved to St John's College, Cambridge, obtaining his PhD under the supervision of John Taylor in 1963.
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