Iain Stewart | |
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| Citizenship | American, Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Manitoba (BSc 1994, MSc 1995) California Institute of Technology (PhD 1999) |
| Known for | Effective field theory Soft-collinear effective theory |
| Awards | APS Fellow Simons Investigator |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear physics Particle physics |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego University of Washington, Seattle Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Applications of Chiral Perturbation Theory in Reactions with Heavy Particles (1999) |
| Academic advisors | Peter Blunden (MSc) Mark Wise (PhD) |
Iain William Stewart is a Canadian-American theoretical nuclear and particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the Otto and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science and the current Director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP).[1] He is best known for his work on effective field theories and for developing the Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET).[2]