Gabriele Veneziano
Gabriele Veneziano · Science & Medicine
Physicist; the Veneziano amplitude that launched string theory
1942, Florence, Italy
Italy · Switzerland (CERN) · France (Collège de France)
Gabriele Veneziano is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; the Veneziano amplitude that launched string theory
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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Physicist; the Veneziano amplitude that launched string theory
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