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Arthur Jaffe

Who

Arthur Jaffe · Science & Medicine

What

Constructive quantum field theory

When

1937, New York City, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Arthur Jaffe is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Constructive quantum field theory

How & why

Arthur Jaffe is a mathematical physicist at Harvard who, with James Glimm, built much of constructive quantum field theory, giving rigorous mathematical foundations to interacting quantum fields. He co-founded and long led the Clay Mathematics Institute's early work and served as president of the American Mathematical Society. He is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Constructive quantum field theory

1937

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics