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Sidney Coleman, the Glossary

Sidney Richard Coleman (7 March 1937 – 18 November 2007) was an American theoretical physicist noted for his research in high-energy physics.^[1]

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Advent:Publishers

Advent:Publishers is an American publishing house.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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Anthony Zee (b. 1945) (Zee comes from /ʑi23/, the Shanghainese pronunciation of 徐) is a Chinese-American physicist, writer, and a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Antonino Zichichi

Antonino Zichichi (born 15 October 1929) is an Italian physicist who has worked in the field of nuclear physics.

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Bosonization

In theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum field theory, bosonization is a mathematical procedure by which a system of interacting fermions in (1+1) dimensions can be transformed to a system of massless, non-interacting bosons.

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Carl M. Bender

Carl M. Bender (born 1943) is an American applied mathematician and mathematical physicist. Sidney Coleman and Carl M. Bender are American mathematical physicists.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Coleman–Mandula theorem

In theoretical physics, the Coleman–Mandula theorem is a no-go theorem stating that spacetime and internal symmetries can only combine in a trivial way.

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Coleman–Weinberg potential

The Coleman–Weinberg model represents quantum electrodynamics of a scalar field in four-dimensions.

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Communications in Mathematical Physics

Communications in Mathematical Physics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer.

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Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics is an award given each year since 1959 jointly by the American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics.

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David J. Griffiths

David Jeffrey Griffiths (born December 5, 1942) is an American physicist and educator.

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Dirac Medal (ICTP)

The Dirac Medal of the ICTP is given each year by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in honour of physicist Paul Dirac.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Edward Witten

Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to string theory, topological quantum field theory, and various areas of mathematics. Sidney Coleman and Edward Witten are American mathematical physicists.

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Equivalence relation

In mathematics, an equivalence relation is a binary relation that is reflexive, symmetric and transitive.

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Erice

Erice (Èrici ˈɛːɾɪʃɪ) is a historic town and comune in the province of Trapani, Sicily, southern Italy.

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Erick Weinberg

Erick J. Weinberg (born August 29, 1947) is a theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Columbia University. Sidney Coleman and Erick Weinberg are American theoretical physicists.

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False vacuum

In quantum field theory, a false vacuum is a hypothetical vacuum state that is locally stable but does not occupy the most stable possible ground state.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hugh David Politzer

Hugh David Politzer (born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Sidney Coleman and Hugh David Politzer are American theoretical physicists.

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Ian Affleck

Ian Keith Affleck is a Canadian physicist specializing in condensed matter physics.

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IIT Physics Department

The Department of Physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology has over 30 faculty members.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Institute of Technology

Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Jacques Distler

Jacques Distler (born January 1, 1961) is a Canadian-born American physicist working in string theory.

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Jeffrey Mandula

Jeffrey Ellis Mandula (born 1941 in New York City) is a physicist well known for the Coleman–Mandula theorem from 1967.

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Lee Smolin

Lee Smolin (born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto.

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Leonard Parker

Leonard Emanuel Parker (born Leonard Pearlman; in 1938) is a distinguished professor emeritus of physics and a former director of the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

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Lewy body dementia

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is an umbrella term for two similar and common subtypes of dementia: dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD).

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Mark Alford (physicist)

Mark G. Alford (born 3 July 1962) is a theoretical physicist and former chair (2012-2022) of the Department of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. Sidney Coleman and Mark Alford (physicist) are American theoretical physicists.

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Mermin–Wagner theorem

In quantum field theory and statistical mechanics, the Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner theorem or Mermin–Wagner theorem (also known as Mermin–Wagner–Berezinskii theorem or Coleman theorem) states that continuous symmetries cannot be spontaneously broken at finite temperature in systems with sufficiently short-range interactions in dimensions.

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Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann (September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles. Sidney Coleman and Murray Gell-Mann are American theoretical physicists.

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NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing

The NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) "to recognize authors whose reviews have synthesized extensive and difficult material, rendering a significant service to science and influencing the course of scientific thought." It has been awarded annually in specific fields since 1979.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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Paul Steinhardt

Paul Joseph Steinhardt (born December 25, 1952) is an American theoretical physicist whose principal research is in cosmology and condensed matter physics.

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Physical Review

Physical Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1893 by Edward Nichols.

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Q-ball

In theoretical physics, Q-ball is a type of non-topological soliton.

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Quantum field theory

In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical framework that combines classical field theory, special relativity, and quantum mechanics.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Coleman

Also known as Sidney R. Coleman, Sidney Richard Coleman.

, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Theoretical physics, Thirring model.

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