Beyond Einstein by Michio Kaku

Author:Michio Kaku [Kaku, Michio]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-05-30T15:03:26+00:00

< previous page

page_112

next page >

< previous page

page_113

next page >

Page 113

8

Supersymmetry

The man who has figured most prominently in the discovery of superstrings is John Sch´warz of the California Institute of Technology.

Like some other leading superstring physicists, John Schwarz comes from a family of scientists. His father was an industrial chemist and his mother was a physicist at the University of Vienna. His mother even secured a job with Madame Curie in Paris, but the great chemist died before she could begin. John's parents were from Hungary, but, with the massive anti-Jewish sentiment rising under the Nazis in Europe, they fled Europe in 1940 and settled in the United States. John was born in 1941 in North Adams, Massachusetts.

He began his undergraduate work at Harvard as a math major but was graduated as a physics major in 1962. I was beginning to get frustrated with mathematics, he recalls. While it was a lot of fun, I really didn't see the point in it all. But trying to answer the questions posed by nature, that seemed to me to be more focused, and also more satisfying. 1

After Harvard, he went to graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. That was the hotbed of theoretical physics in those days, he remembers fondly. The S-matrix theory was at its height, and both he and David Gross of Princeton worked under

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.