Richard Lewis Arnowitt (May 3, 1928 – June 12, 2014) was an American physicist known for his contributions to theoretical particle physics and to general relativity.[2]
Arnowitt was a Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) at Texas A&M University, where he was a member of the Department of Physics.
His research interests were centered on supersymmetry and supergravity, from phenomenology (namely how to find evidence for supersymmetry at current and planned particle accelerators or in the guise of dark matter) to more theoretical questions of string and M theory.[3]
In the context of general relativity, he was best known for his development (with Stanley Deser and Charles Misner) of the ADM formalism, roughly speaking a way of describing spacetime as space evolving in time, which allows a recasting of Einstein's theory in terms of a more general formalism used in physics to describe dynamical systems, namely the Hamiltonian formalism. In the framework of that formalism, there is also a straightforward way to globally define quantities like energy or, equivalently, mass (so-called ADM mass/energy) which, in general relativity, is not trivial at all.
Arnowitt was also known for his work (with Ali Chamseddine and Pran Nath) which developed the theory of supergravity grand unification (with gravity mediated breaking). This work allowed for the unification of the three forces of microscopic physics at a very high mass scale (a result subsequently indirectly verified at the CERN LEP accelerator). The simplest version, called mSUGRA, is now commonly used to search for new physics at high energy accelerators. In addition, Arnowitt's work (with Marvin Girardeau) on many body theory of liquid Helium has stimulated many applications in that field.
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Richard Lewis Arnowitt (May 3, 1928 – June 12, 2014) was an American physicist known for his contributions to theoretical particle physics and to general...
The Arnowitt–Deser–Misner (ADM) formalism (named for its authors RichardArnowitt, Stanley Deser and Charles W. Misner) is a Hamiltonian formulation of...
breaks by a super Higgs mechanism carried out by Ali Chamseddine, RichardArnowitt and Pran Nath in 1982. Collectively now known as minimal supergravity...
in 1975. In the context of general relativity, he developed, with RichardArnowitt and Charles Misner, the ADM formalism, roughly speaking a way of describing...
Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED), along with Richard Feynman and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga. Schwinger's awards and honors were numerous...
Riemann tensor. 1959 – Arthur Komar introduces the Komar mass. 1959 – RichardArnowitt, Stanley Deser and Charles W. Misner developed ADM formalism. 1960...
achievement in the field is the one he did in 1982 in collaboration with RichardArnowitt and Pran Nath at Northeastern University. They constructed the most...
the supergravity interactions was carried out by Ali Chamseddine, RichardArnowitt, and Pran Nath in 1982. mSUGRA is one of the most widely investigated...
1997 Harry W. Lehmann 1996 Roy J. Glauber 1995 Roman W. Jackiw 1994 RichardArnowitt, Stanley Deser and Charles W. Misner 1993 Martin C. Gutzwiller 1992...
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(1928–2011) Anthony Milner Lane (1928–2011) István Ozsváth [eo] (1928–2013) RichardArnowitt (1928–2014) Andrew Sessler (1928–2014) Robert Zwanzig (1928–2014) Samuel...
spacetime back into separated space and time. This was first published by RichardArnowitt, Stanley Deser, and Charles W. Misner in the late 1950s in what has...
1595A. doi:10.1103/physrev.117.1595. ISSN 0031-899X. S2CID 120715041. Arnowitt, Richard; Deser, Stanley; Misner, Charles W. (1962). "The dynamics of general...
denote the initial value formulation of general relativity, introduced by Arnowitt, Deser, and Misner (ADM formalism) around 1960. In this reformulation,...
integral of the news function at null infinity varied by solid angle. The Arnowitt–Deser–Misner (ADM) energy, or ADM mass, is the mass as measured at infinite...
Methods of Classical Mechanics, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-96890-0 Arnowitt, Richard; Deser, Stanley; Misner, Charles W. (1962), "The dynamics of general...
Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-67228-3. Nath, P.; Arnowitt, R. (1975). "Generalized Super-Gauge Symmetry as a New Framework for Unified...
Stanford University. Guy Irving Anderson, deceased. Fine Arts. Richard Lewis Arnowitt, Professor of Physics, Northeastern University. Joseph H. Aronson...
and Manin, as in the ADHM construction of instantons. ADM Initials of Arnowitt, Deser, and Misner, as in ADM energy, a way of defining the global energy...
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