Stanley Mandelstam
Stanley Mandelstam | |
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| Born | 12 December 1928 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Died | 11 June 2016 (aged 87) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of the Witwatersrand, Birmingham University, Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Double dispersion relations Mandelstam variables |
| Awards | Dirac Medal (1991) Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1992) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle physics String theory |
| Institutions | University of the Witwatersrand University of California, Berkeley University of Birmingham |
| Thesis | Some Contributions to the Theory and Application of the Bethe-Salpeter Equation (1956) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rudolf Peierls |
| Other academic advisors | Paul Taunton Matthews |
| Doctoral students | Michio Kaku Charles Thorn Joseph Polchinski |
Stanley Mandelstam (/ˈmændəlstæm/; 12 December 1928 – 23 June 2016) was a South African theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations. The double dispersion relations were a central tool in the bootstrap program which sought to formulate a consistent theory of infinitely many particle types of increasing spin.