David Olive
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David Olive | |
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Born | London, England |
April 16, 1937
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Cambridge, England |
Nationality | British |
Institutions | University of Cambridge CERN Imperial College London University of Swansea |
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Thesis | Unitarity and S-matrix theory (1963) |
Doctoral advisor | John Clayton Taylor |
Doctoral students | Neil Turok[1] Edward Corrigan Andrew Crumey |
David Ian Olive (/ˈɒlɪv/; 16 April 1937[2] – 7 November 2012[3]) CBE FRS FLSW, was a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to string theory and duality theory. (See GSO projection).
He was Professor of physics at Imperial College, London from 1984 to 1992.[4] In 1992 he moved to Swansea University to help set up the new theoretical physics group.[5]
He was awarded the Dirac Prize and Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1997.[6] He was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Elected FRS 1987, and appointed CBE in 2002.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ David Olive at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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