Daniel Z. Freedman is an American theoretical physicist.
Education
Daniel Freedman completed his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and completed his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in 1980 and joint Professor of Physics in 2001. Before joining Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was a professor at Stony Brook University.
Career
He is a Professor of Physics and Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He is known for his work in supergravity. In 1976, Freedman codiscovered (with Sergio Ferrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen) supergravity.
Freedman and van Nieuwenhuizen were on the faculty of the Stony Brook University. generalizes Einstein"s theory of general relativity by incorporating the then-new idea of supersymmetry.
In the following decades it had implications for physics beyond the Standard Model, for superstring theory and for mathematics. Daniel Freedman is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is in quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and superstring theory with an emphasis on the role of supersymmetry.
His most recent area of concentration is the AdS/CFT correspondence in which results on the strong coupling limit of certain 4-dimensional gauge theories can be obtained from calculations in classical 5-dimensional supergravity.