Stanley Mandelstam

Stanley Mandelstam
Born	(1928-12-12)12 December 1928 Johannesburg,[1] South Africa
Died	23 June 2016(2016-06-23) (aged 87) Berkeley, California, U.S.
Alma mater	University of the Witwatersrand, Birmingham University, Trinity College, Cambridge
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society Dirac Medal Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1992)
Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics String theory
Institutions	University of the Witwatersrand, University of California - Berkeley, University of Birmingham
Thesis	Some Contributions to the Theory and Application of the Bethe-Salpeter Equation (1956)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Henry Dalitz
Other academic advisors	Paul Taunton Matthews
Doctoral students	Michio Kaku Charles Thorn Joseph Polchinski Nathan Berkovits

Stanley Mandelstam (12 December 1928 – 23 June 2016) was a South African-born American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent.^[2] He introduced the Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958. It was a coordinate system for creating his double dispersion relations.

He was the Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Birmingham (1960-63), the Professeur Associé at Université Paris-Sud (1979–80; 1984–85) and the Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1963 until his death and was also the Professor Emeritus from 1994 until his death.

References

1. Array of Contemporary American Physicists
2. Jewish Year Book 2005, page 214.

Other websites

• Web page at Berkeley