Sidney Coleman
Sidney Coleman | |
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| Born | March 7, 1937 |
| Died | November 18, 2007 (aged 70) |
| Alma mater | Illinois Institute of Technology (B.Sc. 1957) Caltech (Ph.D. 1962) |
| Known for | Coleman theorem Coleman–Mandula theorem Coleman–Weinberg potential Q-ball |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Quantum field theory |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Murray Gell-Mann |
| Doctoral students | Ian Affleck Mark Alford Carl M. Bender Jacques Distler David Griffiths Jeffrey Mandula Stephen Parke Leonard Parker David Politzer Lee Smolin Paul Steinhardt Erick Weinberg Anthony Zee see |
| Other notable students | Edward Witten |
Sidney Richard Coleman (7 March 1937 – 18 November 2007) was an American theoretical physicist noted for his research in high-energy physics.