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American physicist
Daniel Zissel Freedman (born 1939 in
Hartford, Connecticut ) is an American
theoretical physicist . He is an Emeritus Professor of
Physics and
Applied Mathematics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is currently a visiting professor at
Stanford University . He is mainly known for his work in
supergravity . He is a member of the U. S.
National Academy of Sciences .
[1]
Education
Daniel Freedman completed his undergraduate degree from
Wesleyan University and completed his Ph.D. from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964. In 1967–68, Freedman was a member of the School of Natural Sciences at the
Institute for Advanced Study , and returned subsequently in 1973–74 and 1986–87.
[2] He was appointed Professor of
Applied Mathematics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1980 and joint Professor of
Physics in 2001. Before joining MIT, he was a professor at
Stony Brook University .
Supergravity
In 1976, Daniel Z. Freedman codiscovered (with
Sergio Ferrara and
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen )
supergravity . Freedman and van Nieuwenhuizen were on the faculty of the
Stony Brook University . Supergravity generalizes Einstein's theory of general relativity by incorporating the then-new idea of
supersymmetry . In the following decades it had implications for physics beyond the
Standard Model , for
superstring theory and for mathematics. For his work on supergravity, Freedman, a former Sloan and twice Guggenheim fellow, received in 1993 the
Dirac Medal and Prize, in 2006 the
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics ,
[3] in 2016 the
Majorana Medal
[4] and in 2019 the
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics ,
[5] in each case together with his codiscoverers Sergio Ferrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen. Freedman also gave the 2002 Andrejewski Lectures in Mathematical Physics at the
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in
Leipzig .
[4]
Research interests
Daniel Freedman is a professor at MIT. His research is in
quantum field theory ,
quantum gravity , and
superstring theory with an emphasis on the role of
supersymmetry . His most recent area of concentration is the
AdS/CFT correspondence in which results on the strong coupling limit of certain 4-dimensional gauge theories can be obtained from calculations in classical 5-dimensional
supergravity .
In the academic year 1993/94 Freedman was a visiting scientist in the
CERN Theory Division,
Geneva ,
Switzerland .
[6]
References
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"News from the National Academy of Sciences" . April 26, 2021. Retrieved July 2, 2021 . Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are: ... Freedman, Daniel Z.; professor emeritus of applied mathematics and physics, department of mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; visiting professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
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"Daniel Freedman" . Institute for Advanced Study . Retrieved 2019-08-06 .
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Discovery of Supergravity at Stony Brook Recognized by the APS Dannie Heineman Prize .
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b
Daniel Z. Freedman at MIT .
^ Mike Wall (August 6, 2019).
" 'Supergravity' Theorists Win $3 Million Physics Breakthrough Prize" .
Space.com . Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
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"Freedman's publications authored during his sabbatical year at CERN" . INSPIRE HEP . CERN. Retrieved 2019-10-17 .
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