Everything about Sidney Coleman totally explained
Sidney Richard Coleman (
7 March 1937 –
18 November 2007) was an eminent
theoretical physicist who studied under
Murray Gell-Mann.
Life and work
Sidney Coleman grew up on the Far North Side of
Chicago. In 1957, he got his undergraduate degree from the
Illinois Institute of Technology.
He received his PhD from
Caltech in 1962, and moved to
Harvard University that year, where he spent his entire career, meeting his wife Diana there in the late 1970s. They were married in 1982.
"He was a giant in a peculiar sense, because he's not known to the general populace," Nobel laureate
Sheldon Glashow told the
Boston Globe. "He's not a Stephen Hawking; he's virtually no visibility outside. But within the community of theoretical physicists, he's kind of a major god. He is the physicist's physicist."
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In 1966,
Antonino Zichichi recruited Coleman as a lecturer at the then-new summer school at International School for Subnuclear Physics in Erice, Sicily. A legendary figure at the school throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Coleman was awarded the title "Best Lecturer" on the occasion of the school's fifteenth anniversary (1979). His explanation of
spontaneous symmetry breaking in terms of a little man living inside a ferromagnet has often been cited by later popularizers.
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Aspects of Symmetry (1985) is a collection of Coleman's lectures at Erice.
His lectures at Harvard were also legendary. Students in one quantum field theory course created Tshirts bearing his image and a collection of his more noted quotations, among them: "Not only God knows, I know, and by the end of the semester, you'll know."
In 1989, he won the US
National Academy of Sciences Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing. That award praised his "lucid, insightful, and influential reviews on partially conserved currents, gauge theories, instantons, and magnetic monopoles--subjects fundamental to theoretical physics."
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Contributions to physics
Some of his best known works are
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