Background
Parker, Leonard Emanuel was born on May 13, 1938 in New York City. Son of Jack and Anna Parker.
physicist university professor
Parker, Leonard Emanuel was born on May 13, 1938 in New York City. Son of Jack and Anna Parker.
Bachelor of Arts Rochester, 1960. AM, Harvard University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1967.
During the late 1960s, Parker established a new area of physics - quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Specifically, by applying the technique of Bogoliubov transformations to quantum field theory with a changing gravitational field, he discovered the physical mechanism now known as gravitational particle production. His work inspired research by hundreds of physicists and has been cited in more than 2,000 research papers.
lieutenant was credited in the memoirs of Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov and helped Stephen Hawking discover the creation of particles by black holes.
Recently, with David Toms of Newcastle University, Parker co-wrote a latest addition to graduate-level textbooks on quantum field theory in curved spacetime, entitled Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity (Cambridge University Press, 2009, ). He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1967.
His advisor was Sidney Coleman. 1984 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society.
Fellow: American Physical Society. Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences (member editorial board International Journal Modern Physics, Journal Mathematics Physics), American Association Physics Teachers.
Married Gloria Drucker, August 13, 1961. Children: David, Michael, Deborah.