Rod Crewther
| Rod Crewther | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1945 |
| Residence | Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions |
University of Adelaide CERN Cornell University Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory University of Berne University of Dortmund Max Planck Institute |
| Alma mater |
California Institute of Technology Melbourne University |
| Doctoral advisor | Murray Gell-Mann |
| Notable students | Adrian P. Flitney, Bao-Loc Nguyen |
| Known for | Gauge field theory |
| Influences | Richard Feynman |
| Notable awards | Fulbright scholarship |
Rodney James Crewther (born 1945) is a physicist, notable in the field of gauge field theories.
After gaining his MSc 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 completed his doctorate, in 1971, after successfully defending his dissertation against the renowned theorist Richard Feynman. His thesis was entitled Spontaneous Breakdown of Conformal and Chiral Invariance.
After his PhD, he held postdoctoral appointments at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Subsequently, he spent twelve years in Europe, six of them as a Staff Member of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, and the remainder as a Research Associate at the University of Berne, University of Dortmund, and at the Max Planck Institute in Munich. Crewther was then appointed as a senior lecturer in physics at the University of Adelaide.
Having a keen interest in politics, Crewther is vice-president of the University of Adelaide branch of the National Tertiary Education Union. He also served on the University Council.
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