Geoffrey Chew

Geoffrey F. Chew
Chew at his California home in July 2014
Born(1924-06-05)June 5, 1924
DiedApril 12, 2019(2019-04-12) (aged 94)
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Known forS-matrix theory, bootstrap theory, strong interactions, Chew–Frautschi plot
AwardsHughes Prize (1962)
Lawrence Prize (1969)
Majorana Prize (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois
University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorEnrico Fermi
Doctoral studentsDavid Gross
Freda Friedman Salzman
John H. Schwarz
John R. Taylor
Geoffrey F. Chew Los Alamos ID

Geoffrey Foucar Chew (//; June 5, 1924 – April 12, 2019)[1][2] was an American theoretical physicist. He is known for his bootstrap theory of strong interactions.[3]

  1. ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. ^ "Remembering Geoffrey Chew". UC Berkeley Physics. Archived from the original on April 28, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  3. ^ Basarab Nicolescu, "The Bootstrap Principle and the Uniqueness of our World", in From Modernity to Cosmodernity - Science, Culture, and Spirituality, SUNY Press, 2018