- Arthur Wightman
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name = Arthur Strong Wightman
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birth_date = birth date|1922|3|30|mf=y
birth_place =Rochester, New York
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residence = U.S.
nationality = US
field =Physicist
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work_institution = Princeton
alma_mater = Princeton
doctoral_advisor =John Archibald Wheeler
doctoral_students =Eduard Prugovecki Barry Simon Alan Sokal Stephen Fulling
known_for =Quantum field theory Wightman axioms
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prizes =Poincaré Prize (1977)
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footnotes =Arthur Strong Wightman (
March 30 ,1922 inRochester, New York ) is an American mathematicalphysicist . He is one of the founders ofquantum field theory , and originated the set ofWightman axioms .Advised by John Wheeler, his 1949 Princeton doctoral dissertation was entitled "The Moderation and Absorption of Negative Pions in Hydrogen". His graduate students include
Arthur Jaffe ,Jerrold Marsden , andAlan Sokal .Wightman was awarded the
Poincaré Prize of theInternational Mathematical Physics Congress in 1997. He is currently a professor emeritus at Princeton.External links
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Ray Streater [http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/wightman.html Remarks with photo]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=11904 The Mathematics Genealogy Project]
* [http://www.iamp.org/poincare/aw97-cit.html Wightman's Poincaré Prize citation]Persondata
NAME= Wightman, Arthur Strong
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Physicist
DATE OF BIRTH=March 30 ,1922
PLACE OF BIRTH=Rochester, New York
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