Rod Crewther

Rod Crewther
Born	1945
Residence	Australia
Nationality	Australian
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	University of Adelaide CERN Cornell University Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory University of Berne University of Dortmund Max Planck Institute
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology Melbourne University
Doctoral advisor	Murray Gell-Mann
Notable students	Adrian P. Flitney
Known for	Gauge field theory
Influences	Richard Feynman
Notable awards	Fulbright scholarship

Rodney James Crewther (born 1945) is a physicist, notable in the field of gauge field theories.

Education

After gaining his MSc at Melbourne University, Crewther was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the California Institute of Technology. He studied under the tutelage of Nobel prizewinner Murray Gell-Mann and completed his doctorate, in 1971, after successfully defending his dissertation against the renowned theorist Richard Feynman. He thesis was entitled Spontaneous Breakdown of Conformal and Chiral Invariance.^[1]

Career

After his PhD, he held postdoctoral appointments at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Subsequently, he spent twelve years in Europe, six of them as a Staff Member of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, and the remainder as a Research Associate at the University of Berne, University of Dortmund, and at the Max Planck Institute in Munich. Crewther was then appointed as a senior lecturer in physics at the University of Adelaide.^[2]

Having a keen interest in politics, Crewther is president of the University of Adelaide branch of the National Tertiary Education Union.^[3] He also serves on the University Council, where he is considered a maverick and frequently rails against what he calls the corporate agenda of the university.

Teaching

He designed the honours physics course "Gauge Field Theories." He also lectures on Quantum Mechanics III, Advanced Dynamics and Relativity, and Honours Quantum Field Theory. Although he no longer teaches the courses Quantum Mechanics II, Honours Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics, and Classical Fields and Mathematical Methods, his notes are followed by his successors.

Notes and references

1. ^ http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=102481
2. ^ http://www.adelaide.edu.au/governance/council/members/
3. ^ "University of Adelaide Branch". National Tertiary Education Union. http://www.nteu.org.au/bd/adelaide. Retrieved 2008-05-13. 

External links

• Crewther's math genealogy
• Crewther's homepage
• Crewther bio
• Crewther's Expert profile
• Crewther's University of Adelaide profile
• Commentary on Crewther's work by Gerardus 't Hooft
• Crewther at the Scientific Commons
• Crewther at SPIRES
• Crewther's thesis

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Name	Crewther, Rod
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Date of birth	1945
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