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John Henry Schwarz

American theoretical physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1941 · age 84

John Henry Schwarz is an American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders of string theory.

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2014Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental PhysicsAward2002Clarivate Citation LaureatesAwardDannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical PhysicsAward1994“The second superstring revolution (1994-??) has brought non-perturbative string physics within reach.”In their wordspp. 4-5Read the whole statement

1989ICTP Dirac MedalAward1941Born22 November 1941

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Supergravity theories generically contain non-compact global symmetry groups. The general rule is that the scalar fields of the theory in question parametrize a symmetric space.
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As I once told a newspaper reporter, in order to be sure to be quoted: discovery of supersymmetry would be more profound than life on Mars.
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One of the facts of nature is that there is what's called parity violation, which means that the fundamental laws are not invariant under mirror reflection.
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