- Sergio Ferrara
Sergio Ferrara (
1945 -) is an Italianphysicist . He is a professor at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles . He co-discoveredsupergravity in 1976.Early years
Sergio Ferrara was born on
2 May ,1945 inRome ,Italy . He graduated from the University of Rome in1968 . Since then he has worked as a CNEN and INFN researcher at theFrascati National Laboratories ; as a CNRS Visiting Scientist at theLaboratoire de Physique Theorique ,Ecole Normale Superieure ,Paris , and at the Theoretical Studies Division atCERN ,Geneva .upergravity
In 1976, Sergio Ferrara,
Daniel Z. Freedman , andPeter van Nieuwenhuizen discoveredSupergravity atStony Brook University inNew York . It was initially proposed as a four-dimensional theory. The theory of supergravity generalizes Einstein'stheory of general relativity by incorporating the principles ofsupersymmetry .Later years
In 1980 he was made a full professor of
theoretical physics in Italy. He became a staff member of the Theory Division atCERN in 1981. In 1985, he became a Professor of Physics at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles . Since 1986 he has been a senior staff member of the Physics Department at CERN.Awards
In 1993 he received the Dirac Medal and Prize from ICTP (Trieste) and in 2006 (with D. Freedman and P. Van Nieuwenhuizen) he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics from the APS. In 2005 he received an Honorary Degree in Physics, "Laurea Honoris Causa", from the 2nd University of Rome (Tor Vergata, Italy), and (with G. Veneziano, CERN, and B. Zumino, Berkeley) was awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society.
ee also
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Supersymmetry
*Supergravity External links
* [http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Sergio%20Ferrara 2006 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Recipient]
* [http://personnel.physics.ucla.edu/directory/faculty/index.php?f_name=ferrara Sergio Ferrara's profile at UCLA]
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