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David Olive
CBE FRS FLSW
Born
David Ian Olive

(1937-04-16)16 April 1937[3]
Middlesex, England[4]
Died7 November 2012(2012-11-07) (aged 75)[5]
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
  • University of Edinburgh (BA, 1958)
  • St John's College, Cambridge (PhD, 1963)
Known for
  • GKO construction
  • GSO projection
  • Montonen–Olive duality
Spouse
Jenny Olive
(m. 1963)
[4]
AwardsDirac Medal[1]
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Carnegie Institute of Technology
CERN
Imperial College London
University of Swansea
Thesis Unitarity and S-matrix theory  (1963)
Doctoral advisorJohn Clayton Taylor[2]
Doctoral studentsNeil Turok[2]
Ed Corrigan[2]
Andrew Crumey[2]

David Ian Olive CBE FRS FLSW (/ˈɒlɪv/ (listen); 16 April 1937 – 7 November 2012) was a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to string theory and duality theory, he is particularly known for his work on the GSO projection and Montonen–Olive duality.

He was professor of physics at Imperial College, London, from 1984 to 1992.[6] In 1992 he moved to Swansea University to help set up the new theoretical physics group.[4]

He was awarded the Dirac Prize and Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1997.[1] He was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[4] He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1987, and appointed CBE in 2002.[6]

  1. ^ a b ICTP 1997.
  2. ^ a b c d MGP.
  3. ^ Debretts 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d Swansea University 2012.
  5. ^ The Times 2012a.
  6. ^ a b The Times 2012b.

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