Stanley Mandelstam
Stanley Mandelstam · Science & Medicine
Physicist; Mandelstam variables and string theory
1928, Johannesburg, South Africa — 2016, Berkeley, California, United States
South Africa · United Kingdom · United States (UC Berkeley)
Stanley Mandelstam is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; Mandelstam variables and string theory
Mandelstam, born to a Jewish family in Johannesburg, was a theoretical physicist who introduced the Mandelstam variables that organise particle-scattering amplitudes and pioneered the analytic 'S-matrix' approach to the strong interaction. He later contributed deep results to string theory and quantum field theory. He received the Dirac Medal and the Dannie Heineman Prize.
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Physicist; Mandelstam variables and string theory
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