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Geoffrey F. Chew | |
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 Chew at his California home in July 2014 | |
| Born | June 5, 1924 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | April 12, 2019 (aged 94) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Known for | S-matrix theory, bootstrap theory, strong interactions, Chew–Frautschi plot |
| Awards | Hughes Prize (1962) Lawrence Prize (1969) Majorana Prize (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | University of Illinois University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Enrico Fermi |
| Doctoral students | David Gross Freda Friedman Salzman John H. Schwarz John R. Taylor |
Geoffrey Foucar Chew (/tʃuː/; June 5, 1924 – April 12, 2019)[1][2] was an American theoretical physicist. He is known for his bootstrap theory of strong interactions.[3]
- ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ^ "Remembering Geoffrey Chew". UC Berkeley Physics. Archived from the original on April 28, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ Basarab Nicolescu, "The Bootstrap Principle and the Uniqueness of our World", in From Modernity to Cosmodernity - Science, Culture, and Spirituality, SUNY Press, 2018