David Olive
David Olive | |
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Born | London, England | April 16, 1937
Died | November 7, 2012 Cambridge, England | (aged 75)
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Cambridge CERN Imperial College London University of Swansea |
Thesis | Unitarity and S-matrix theory (1963) |
Doctoral advisor | John Clayton Taylor |
Doctoral students | Neil Turok[1] Edward Corrigan Andrew Crumey |
David Ian Olive (/ˈɒlɪv/; 16 April 1937[2] – 7 November 2012[3]) CBE FRS FLSW, was a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to string theory and duality theory. (See GSO projection).
He was Professor of physics at Imperial College, London from 1984 to 1992.[4] In 1992 he moved to Swansea University to help set up the new theoretical physics group.[5]
He was awarded the Dirac Prize and Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1997.[6] He was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Elected FRS 1987, and appointed CBE in 2002.[4]
See also
References
- ^ David Olive at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Prof David Olive, CBE, FRS". Debretts. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- ^ "David Ian Olive Obituary". The Times. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- ^ a b "Professor David Olive. The Times. p54. 19 Dec 2012".
- ^ David Olive at Swansea University
- ^ Dirac medal
Further reading
- Professor David Olive. The Times. p54. 19 Dec 2012
- "Olive, David Ian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105903. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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