Sidney Dancoff

Sidney Dancoff
Born(1913-09-27)September 27, 1913
DiedAugust 15, 1951(1951-08-15) (aged 37)
Alma materUniversity of California at Berkeley
Known forTamm–Dancoff approximation
Scientific career
ThesisThree problems in quantum mechanics (1939)
Doctoral advisorRobert Oppenheimer
Doctoral studentsSidney Drell

Sidney Michael Dancoff (September 27, 1913 in Philadelphia – August 15, 1951 in Urbana, Illinois) was an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED).


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