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Stephen L. Adler

Professor Emeritus
School of Natural Sciences

Particle Physics

Affiliation

Natural Sciences

Home Institution

IAS

In a series of remarkable, difficult calculations, Stephen Adler demonstrated that abstract ideas about the symmetries of fundamental interactions could be made to yield concrete predictions. The successful verification of these predictions was a vital step toward the modern Standard Model of particle physics. In more recent work, he has been exploring generalized forms of quantum mechanics, both from a theoretical and a phenomenological standpoint. He has developed new algorithms for multidimensional integration, and is currently exploring a particle unification model based on boson-fermion balance without full supersymmetry, and a novel proposal for the "dark energy" that drives the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Dates at IAS

Emeritus
School of Natural Sciences
Faculty
School of Natural Sciences
Member
School of Natural Sciences

Degrees

Princeton University
Ph.D.
1964
Harvard University
A.B.
1961

Honors

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
American Physical Society, Fellow
American Physical Society, J. J. Sakurai Prize 1988
First Award, 2016 Gravity Research Foundation Awards for Essays on Gravitation
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Dirac Prize and Medal 1998
National Academy of Sciences, Member

Appointments

Princeton University
Visiting Lecturer with rank of Professor
Harvard University
1964–1966
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
California Institute of Technology
1966
Research Associate