John Henry Schwarz
| John Henry Schwarz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 22, 1941 North Adams, Massachusetts |
| Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Chew |
| Doctoral students |
Mina Aganagic Anthony Ichiro Sanda Cosmas Zachos Augusto Sagnotti Michael R. Douglas Gerald B. Cleaver |
| Known for |
Lorentz-covariant description of superstrings Classification of the consistent ten-dimensional superstring theories Green–Schwarz mechanism RNS formalism GS formalism Neveu–Schwarz algebra Discovering the D = 10 critical dimension of superstring theory |
John Henry Schwarz (born November 22, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders of string theory.
He studied mathematics at Harvard College (A.B., 1962) and theoretical physics at the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., 1966), where his graduate advisor was Geoffrey Chew. For several years he was one of the very few physicists who pursued string theory as a viable theory of quantum gravity.
His work with Michael Green on anomaly cancellation in Type I string theories led to the so-called "first superstring revolution" of 1984, which greatly contributed to moving string theory into the mainstream of research in theoretical physics.
Schwarz was an assistant professor at Princeton University from 1966 to 1972. He then moved to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is currently the Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics.
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