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Gabriele Veneziano

Who

Gabriele Veneziano · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; the Veneziano amplitude that launched string theory

When

1942, Florence, Italy

Where

Italy · Switzerland (CERN) · France (Collège de France)

Biography

Gabriele Veneziano is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; the Veneziano amplitude that launched string theory

How & why

Veneziano is widely regarded as the father of string theory: in 1968 he found that the Euler beta function reproduces the scattering amplitude of strongly interacting particles, a discovery soon interpreted as describing vibrating strings and launching the entire field. He did his doctorate at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and spent much of his career at CERN and the Collège de France. He was born in Florence into an Italian Jewish family.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

Contributions & Sources

Physicist; the Veneziano amplitude that launched string theory

1942

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics