Education
He studied mathematics at Harvard College (Bachelor of Arts, 1962) and theoretical physics at the University of California at Berkeley (Doctor of Philosophy, 1966), where his graduate advisor was Geoffrey Chew.
physicist university professor
He studied mathematics at Harvard College (Bachelor of Arts, 1962) and theoretical physics at the University of California at Berkeley (Doctor of Philosophy, 1966), where his graduate advisor was Geoffrey Chew.
Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders of string theory. Foreign several years he was one of the very few physicists who pursued string theory as a viable theory of quantum gravity. His work with Michael Green on anomaly cancellation in Type I string theories led to the so-called "first superstring revolution" of 1984, which greatly contributed to moving string theory into the mainstream of research in theoretical physics.
Schwarz was an assistant professor at Princeton University from 1966 to 1972.
He then moved to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is currently the Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics. Advocacy for "Free and Open Scientific Inquiry" in the study of medical marijuana Last year, Doctor Susan Sisley at the University of Arizona at Phoenix attempted to conduct clinical trials of marijuana treatments for American veterans suffering from extreme post-traumatic stress disorder.
Winning Food and Drug Administration approval would be sufficient for research on any other drug. With marijuana, however, scientists must also apply to the National Institute on Drug Abuse in order to purchase the only legal supply of marijuana.
National Institute on Drug Abuse turned down Doctor Sisley’s request.
As their director explained, National Institute on Drug Abuse’s mission is to support research into the harms, not the benefits, of marijuana. Essentially, National Institute on Drug Abuse’s mission is to block any research that could undermine the Schedule I status of marijuana as a dangerous narcotic, as insisted by the Drug Enforcement Administration. The acceptance of science has come a long way since Galileo was arrested as a heretic for questioning the order of the Universe.
Yet today, the federal government ignores scientific facts accepted around the globe—not to mention the will of the American people—to cling to outdated ideological policies and restrict marijuana research.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received the Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1989, and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics of the American Physical Society in 2002. He was a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1987. On December 12, 2013, John Schwarz shared the Fundamental Physics Prize with Michael Green "for opening new perspectives on quantum gravity and the unification of forces.".
Selected publications Green, M., John H. Schwarz, and E. Witten. Superstring Theory. Vol. 1, Introduction. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. .
Superstring Theory. Vol. 2, Loop Amplitutes, Anomalies and Phenomenology.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
National Academy of Sciences.
