Stanley Mandelstam
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Stanley Mandelstam (b. 1928, Johannesburg) is a South African-born physicist, probably best known for introducing the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958.
Education: Witwatersrand (BSc, 1952); Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1954); Birmingham University (PhD, 1956).
[edit] Career
- Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Birmingham, 1960-63
- Professeur Associé, Université de Paris Sud, 1979-80 and 1984-85
- Professor then Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, since 1963
[edit] Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 1962
- Dirac Medal and Prize, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 1991
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992
- Dannie Heinemann Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Physical Society, 1992