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Leonard E. Parker
Born1938 (age 85–86)
New York City, US
Alma mater Harvard University
Known for Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
Scientific career
Fields Quantum physics
Institutions University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Doctoral advisor Sidney Coleman
Doctoral students Laura Mersini-Houghton
Prakash Panangaden

Leonard Emanuel Parker (born Leonard Pearlman; in 1938) is a distinguished professor emeritus of physics and a former director of the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. During the late 1960s, Parker established a new area of physics— quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Specifically, by applying the technique of Bogoliubov transformations to quantum field theory with a changing gravitational field, he discovered the physical mechanism now known as cosmological particle production. His breakthrough discovery has a surprising consequence: the expansion of the universe can create particles out of the vacuum. [1] His work inspired research by hundreds of physicists and has been cited in more than 2,000 research papers; it was credited in the memoirs of Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov and helped Stephen Hawking discover the creation of particles by black holes.[ citation needed]

Along with David Toms of Newcastle University, Parker co-wrote a latest addition to graduate-level textbooks on quantum field theory in curved spacetime, entitled Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity ( Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN  978-0-521-87787-9).

He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1967. His advisor was Sidney Coleman.

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ Parker, Leonard; Navarro-Salas, Jose (2017). "Fifty years of cosmological particle creation". arXiv: 1702.07132 [ physics.hist-ph].


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leonard E. Parker
Born1938 (age 85–86)
New York City, US
Alma mater Harvard University
Known for Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
Scientific career
Fields Quantum physics
Institutions University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Doctoral advisor Sidney Coleman
Doctoral students Laura Mersini-Houghton
Prakash Panangaden

Leonard Emanuel Parker (born Leonard Pearlman; in 1938) is a distinguished professor emeritus of physics and a former director of the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. During the late 1960s, Parker established a new area of physics— quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Specifically, by applying the technique of Bogoliubov transformations to quantum field theory with a changing gravitational field, he discovered the physical mechanism now known as cosmological particle production. His breakthrough discovery has a surprising consequence: the expansion of the universe can create particles out of the vacuum. [1] His work inspired research by hundreds of physicists and has been cited in more than 2,000 research papers; it was credited in the memoirs of Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov and helped Stephen Hawking discover the creation of particles by black holes.[ citation needed]

Along with David Toms of Newcastle University, Parker co-wrote a latest addition to graduate-level textbooks on quantum field theory in curved spacetime, entitled Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity ( Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN  978-0-521-87787-9).

He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1967. His advisor was Sidney Coleman.

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ Parker, Leonard; Navarro-Salas, Jose (2017). "Fifty years of cosmological particle creation". arXiv: 1702.07132 [ physics.hist-ph].



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