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Tait Institute of Math Phys
Peter Guthrie Tait1831 – 1901Chair of Natural
Philosophy at EdinburghHamilton's QuaternionsTheory of Knots with
Maxwell & Thomson Trajectory of Golf Balls
Max Born (1882-1970)Nobel Prize 1954:
Statistical interpretation of
quantum theoryTait Professor at
Edinburgh UniversityUnfortunate Scandal:
Implicated in the Klaus Füchs
spying case; Füchs was an associate of Born in EdinburghBorn was totally exonerated according to his secretary
Ray Chester who still lives in Pennicuik outside Edinb.
Nicholas Kemmer (1911-1998)Tait Professor of
Mathematical Physics at Edinburgh
ETH (Zurich): An associate of Wolfgang Pauli
Kemmer Equations: Pions (Yukawa)
Helped me enormously in my effort to come to UK to do scientific research.
Wolfgang Pauli (1898-1988)Nobel Prize 1945
Exclusion PrincipleKemmer made interesting
comments 137 bus in London had a
special significanceErdeli – Maths Professor in
Edinburgh had a tremendous capacity for mental computing (like Indian Mathematician Ramanujan an associate of Hardy)
Peter Higgs
Gauge Theory of Broken Symmetries
Higgs Boson(s)60s: Reader at Tait
Institute of Math. PhysicsGave our Quantum Field
Theory LecturesNow: Emeritus Professor at
Edinburgh
Academics at Tait Institute in 60sLecturers:
David Candlin (Computer liason with RHEL)Lance Vick Trevor Priest (now Senior Lecturer Exeter Univ)Peter Osborne (now retired)Ken Bowler (now Professor)
Research Fellows:Mladen Martinis (now Professor at Zagrev)Razmi (Pakistan)......
Research Students
Diploma in theTheory of Elementary Particle:Ananda Amatya (Nepal) (Ph. D)Klaus Büchner (Germany, now Prof. at Munich)Geoffrey Henderson (Northern Ireland) (Ph. D)Irshadullah Khan (Pakistan) (Ph. D)Melvin Roberts (Wales)Norman White (Scotland) (Ph. D)
Continuing Students:Alan Richie.........
Research Students
Hans Grimmer (now Professor at Zurich)Alasdair Broadfoot (now at Napier Univ)Dikran Tcharakian (Armenian)David Wallace (Tait Professor; now Vice-
Chancellor at Leicester University)Alexander Newlands (research under Prof.
Euan Squires of Durham University)Komy ? (Egypt) ......
Research Interests
Symmetry Groups for ParticlesLie Algebra, Unitary groups
Quantum Field TheorySpontaneous break down of symmetries
S-Matrix Theory Complex angular momentum, Regge Poles
Phase Analysis of Hadron Interactions Dispersion Relations & Current Algebras
Sophus Lie (1842-1899)
Lie GroupsContinuous groups of
transformations (symmetry groups)
Howard Georgi, "Lie Algebras in Particle Physics", Second Edition, 1999
Sophus Class Library for Solving PDEs (Partial Differential Equations)
Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
Nobel Prize 1933Anti-particles
Saw him in 1967 at Cambridge
Dirac EquationPositron
Stephen Hawkins
Was Introduced to Stephen By Bruno Renner at Cambridge in 1967
I owe much to Bruno for helping me in my research in Particle Physics. Sadly Bruno died in a climbing accident in 1973
Hans Bethe (1906-)
Nobel Prize 1967Nuclear energy in
starsAttended his
lecture in 1969 at ICTP, Trieste
Murray Gell-Mann (1929-)
Nobel Prize 1969Classification of Particles and
their interactionsAttended his seminar in 1967
at ICTP, TriesteSU(3) matrices
Quarks
Sheldon Glashow (1932-)Nobel Prize 1979
Unified theory of Weak and Electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles
Attended Lectures by him (and Sidney Coleman) at Erice 1966 Summer School
SU(2)xU(1)QCD
Abdus Salam (1926-1996)Nobel Prize 1979
Unified theory of Weak and Electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles
Met in ICTP Trieste in 1967 & 1969
Helped me to return to Europe. (I held a three month long visiting research fellowship at ICTP in 1969)
Stephen Weinberg (1933-)Nobel Prize 1979
Unified theory of Weak and Electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles
Attended a seminar by him at ICTP, Trieste, 1967
Peter Higgs rated his research papers very highly
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