Dr. Stanley Deser

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Lauritsen Laboratory , California Institute of Technology, US and The Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, US.

Author of:
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Prof. Stanley Deser

Figure 1: Prof. Stanley Deser
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Education

  • 1949: BS Summa Cum Laude, Brooklyn College
  • 1950: MA Harvard University
  • 1953: PhD Harvard University (Adviser: J Schwinger)
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Professional Record (only longer-term positions)

  • 1953–55, 1988, 1993: Member, Institute for Advanced Study
  • 1954: Research Associate, University of California, Radiation Laboratory
  • 1955–57: Member, Niels Bohr Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen
  • 1957–58: Lecturer, Harvard University
  • 1958–65: Associate Professor, Brandeis University
  • 1961–62, 1976, 1980–81, 1994: Visiting Scientist, CERN, Geneva
  • 1964–70: Co-Director and Co-Editor, Brandeis Summer Institutes in Theoretical Physics
  • 1965–80: Professor of Physics, Brandeis University
  • 1980– Ancell Professor of Physics, Brandeis University
  • 1966–67: Visiting Professor, Institut Henri Poincare of the Sorbonne
  • 1969–71, 1976–77: Chairman, Physics Department, Brandeis University
  • 1971–72: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Paris – Orsay
  • 1977: Fellow, All Souls Oxford
  • 1984–85: Co-Director, Field Theory Program, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
  • 1987–88: Visiting Professor, Boston University
  • 2005– Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology
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Honors and Awards

  • National Academy of Sciences, USA
  • American Academy of Arts & Science
  • Foreign member, Torino Academy of Science, Italy.
  • Dannie Heineman Prize with R. Arnowitt and C. W. Misner
  • Guggenheim & Fulbright Fellow
  • Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Stockholm Univ and Chalmers Institute of Technology
  • Festschrift: “Deserfest,” World Pub (2006). J T Liu, M J Duff, K S Stelle and R P Woodard, eds.
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Selected Works

  • ADM
  • SUGRA in 1976 (with Zumino)
  • Topologically massive 3D theories 1982 (with Jackiw)
  • 3D Einstein with Jackiw and 't Hooft,
  • More recently a series on partially massive gauge theories in (A) dS (with Waldron)
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See also

Stanley Deser's homepage at Brandeis University

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