John Henry Schwarz
Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientist John Henry Schwarz (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; born November 22, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.
Early life and education
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Faculty website</ref>
Awards
He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1986).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1987.
He received the Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1989, and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics of the American Physical Society in 2002. On December 12, 2013, he shared the Fundamental Physics Prize with Michael Green "for opening new perspectives on quantum gravity and the unification of forces."
Selected publications
- Green, M., John H. Schwarz, and E. Witten. Superstring Theory. Vol. 1, Introduction. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Template:ISBN.
- Superstring Theory. Vol. 2, Loop Amplitutes, Anomalies and Phenomenology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Template:ISBN.
- Becker, Katrin, Melanie Becker, and John H. Schwarz. String theory and M-theory: A modern introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Template:ISBN.
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- Oral history interview transcript with John Schwarz on 7 July 2020, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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- 1941 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American physicists
- California Institute of Technology faculty
- Harvard College alumni
- MacArthur Fellows
- People from North Adams, Massachusetts
- Princeton University faculty
- American string theorists
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of the American Physical Society