Arthur Wightman

Details

Instance of

human

Born

30 March 1922

Died

13 January 2013

Place of birth

Rochester

Place of death

Edison

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Arthur

Family name

Wightman

Occupation

physicist, university teacher, mathematician

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Henri Poincaré Prize, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

described by source

Physicists: Biographical Dictionary

doctoral advisor

John Archibald Wheeler

doctoral student

Alan Sokal, Oscar Lanford, Stephen Fulling, John S. Lew, Barry Simon, Charles M. Newman, Lawrence Schulman, Rafael de la Llave, Silvan S. Schweber, Huzihiro Araki, Eduard Prugovečki, Gerald Goldin

educated at

Princeton University

employer

Princeton University

languages spoken, written or signed

English

member of

National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society

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