Stanley Deser
Stanley Deser (March 19, 1931 – April 21, 2023) was an American physicist known for his contributions to general relativity. He was an emeritus Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and a senior research associate at California Institute of Technology.
Stanley Deser | |
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| Born | March 19, 1931 |
| Died | April 21, 2023 (aged 92) Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (Ph.D) |
| Known for | ADM formalism Boulware–Deser ghost Quantum gravity Pure 4D N = 1 supergravity Conformal anomaly 2+1 dimensional gravities and Chern–Simons quantum field theory Partially massless systems in anti-de Sitter space |
| Awards | Einstein Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize, Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, Fellow of the American Physical Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Italy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology, Brandeis University |
| Doctoral advisor | Julian Seymour Schwinger |
| Notable students | Lee Smolin |
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