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Sidney Coleman
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Sidney Richard Coleman (7 March 1937 - 18 November 2007) was an eminent theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann.
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Sidney Coleman grew up on the Far North Side of Chicago. In 1957, he got his undergraduate degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
He received his PhD from Caltech in 1962, and moved to Harvard University that year, where he spent his entire career, meeting his wife Diana there in the late 1970s. They were married in 1982.
He was the author of the classic particle physics text Aspects of Symmetry, which is a collection of lectures delivered at the International School for Subnuclear Physics in Erice, Sicily. His lectures at Harvard were legendary.
Some of his best known works are
- Coleman-Mandula theorem
- Tadpoles
- Coleman theorem
- Equivalence of the Thirring model and the quantum Sine-Gordon equation
- Semiclassical analysis of the fate of a false vacuum
- Coleman-Weinberg potential
- Q-balls in the thin-wall limit
- Aspects of Symmetry, Sidney Coleman, Cambridge University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-521-31827-0
- Sidneyfest 2005 - physicists' celebration of Sidney Coleman's life
- Chicago Tribune obituary, November 20, 2007.
- Harvard Gazette obituary, November 29, 2007.
- "Quantum Mechanics In Your Face", A lecture by Prof. Coleman at the New England sectional meeting of the American Physical Society April 9, 1994.
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