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Stanley Mandelstam
American physicist (1928-2016) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 87
Stanley Mandelstam was a South African theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations.
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2016Died23 June 20161992Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical PhysicsAward1991ICTP Dirac MedalAward1954Mayhew PrizeAward1928Born12 December 1928
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The double dispersion relations were a central tool in the bootstrap program which sought to formulate a consistent theory of infinitely many particle types of increasing spin.
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Lived 1928 to 2016 · aged 87
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Peter van NieuwenhuizenBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Thibault DamourBoth received ICTP Dirac Medal
Roman JackiwBoth received ICTP Dirac MedalBruno ZuminoBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Michele ParrinelloBoth received ICTP Dirac MedalNikita NekrasovBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Thibault DamourBoth received ICTP Dirac MedalRoman JackiwBoth received ICTP Dirac MedalBruno ZuminoBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical PhysicsMichele ParrinelloBoth received ICTP Dirac MedalNikita NekrasovBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics