Roman Wladimir JackiwProfessor

Professor Roman Jackiw is a theoretical physicist whose research interests include applying quantum field theory to physical problems, theoretical particle physics, and the search for unexpected, subtle effects that may apply to particle, condensed matter, and gravitational physics. He is renowned for his many fundamental contributions and discoveries in quantum and classical field theories, ranging from high energy physics and gravitation to condensed matter and the physics of fluids. Among his major achievements is the establishment of the presence of the famous Adler–Bell–Jackiw anomalies in quantum field theory, a discovery with far-reaching implications for the structure of the Standard Model of particle physics and all attempts to go beyond it. Other important contributions, among many, that one may mention here are the topological mass term in gravity and gauge theories, and the fractionalization of fermion number and charge in the presence of topological objects. 2007 // Bonnor Essay Prize (Queen Mary University of London) 2003 // Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine 1998 // Dirac Prize and Medal from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy 1995 // Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, APS 1977-78 // John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 1969-71 // Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship