 Jan Smit at the University of Amsterdam Jan Smit is a Dutch theoretical physicist. During his PhD at UCLA with professor Finkelstein he made some early contributions to lattice formulation of quantum field theory around 1972, which was a year before Kenneth Wilson, and two years before Alexander Polyakov. However, he encountered some problems with fermion doubling which he could not solve at the moment. At that time he did not realize the value of his work and he only mentioned it briefly in his PhD thesis in 1974, which was about Schwinger source theory. A few years later he returned to working on the lattice formulation and became a well-known expert in the field. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 756 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author: Marianne Hoogeveen Picture taken on 23 june 2006 Location: Jan Smiths room at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Amsterdam File...
Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 756 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author: Marianne Hoogeveen Picture taken on 23 june 2006 Location: Jan Smiths room at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Amsterdam File...
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Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American physicist. ...
Alexander M. Polyakov is a physicist, formerly at the Landau Institute in Moscow, currently at Princeton University. ...
He works at the University of Amsterdam at the Institute of Theoretical Physics. From Athenaeum Illustre to University In January 1632 two internationally acclaimed scientists, Caspar Barlaeus and Gerardus Vossius, held their inaugural speech in the Athenaeum Illustre - the illustrious school - which had its seat in the 14th-century Agnietenkapel. ...
Trivia In Jan Smit's room at the Institute for Theoretical Physics he has a bed. It's main use is not spending the night after working late, he uses it mainly to take a short nap around 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
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