Michael Peskin
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Michael Peskin is an American theoretical physicist. He was an undergraduate at Harvard University and obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 at Cornell University studying under Kenneth Wilson. He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1977-1980.
He is currently a professor in the theory group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Peskin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.
He is co-author of a popular textbook on Quantum Field Theory. He has authored many popular review articles. He is a noted advocate of building a future linear collider.
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- Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1995.
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