Back ستانلي ماندلستام Arabic ستانلى ماندلستام ARZ استنلی ماندلشتام AZB Stanley Mandelstam German Stanley Mandelstam Spanish استنلی ماندلشتام Persian Stanley Mandelstam French Stanley Mandelstam IG Stanley Mandelstam Italian スタンレー・マンデリシュターム Japanese
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.[1] 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.
- ^ Mandelstam, S. (15 November 1958). "Determination of the Pion-Nucleon Scattering Amplitude from Dispersion Relations and Unitarity. General Theory". Physical Review. 112 (4). American Physical Society (APS): 1344–1360. Bibcode:1958PhRv..112.1344M. doi:10.1103/physrev.112.1344. ISSN 0031-899X.