Stanley Deser | |
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| Born | March 19, 1931 |
| Died | April 21, 2023 (aged 92) Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (Ph.D) |
| Known for | ADM formalism Boulware–Deser ghost Quantum gravity Pure 4D N = 1 supergravity Conformal anomaly 2+1 dimensional gravities and Chern–Simons quantum field theory Partially massless systems in anti-de Sitter space |
| Awards | Einstein Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize, Guggenheim Fellow,[1] Fulbright Fellow, Fellow of the American Physical Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Italy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology, Brandeis University |
| Doctoral advisor | Julian Seymour Schwinger |
| Notable students | Lee Smolin |
Stanley Deser (March 19, 1931 – April 21, 2023) was an American physicist known for his contributions to general relativity. He was an emeritus Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and a senior research associate at California Institute of Technology.