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Polish physicist (1923?2008)
Jan Łopusza?ski
(21 October 1923 ? 30 April 2008) was a Polish
theoretical physicist
and author of several textbooks about classical, statistical and quantum physics. In the field of
quantum field theory
, he is most famous as co-author of the
Haag?Lopuszanski?Sohnius theorem
concerning the possibility of
supersymmetry
in
renormalizable
QFT's.
Career
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Jan Łopusza?ski was born on 21 October 1923 in Lwow, Poland. During 1945-50 he studied physics at the
University of Wrocław
. In 1950, he received his M.A. in Wrocław, in 1955 his
Ph.D.
at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Since 1947, he was part of regular staff member at the University of Wrocław. In 1968, he became a full professor. During the years 1957?59, he was the vice dean and during the years 1962?65, was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. From 1970 to 1984, he was director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics (Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej Uniwersytet Wroclawski). From 1960 onward, he held the chair for mathematical methods in physics until he retired in 1994. In 1976, he was elected a corresponding member and in 1986 permanent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1996, he became a corresponding member of the Poland Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow. He had visiting professorships in
Utrecht
,
NYU
,
IAS
in
Princeton, New Jersey
,
SUNY at Stony Brook
,
University of Gottingen
,
Bielefeld
,
Max Planck Institute
in Munich,
CERN
in Geneva and
ICTP
in
Trieste
. He was also member of the editor board of
Reports on Mathematical Physics
and
Fortschritte der Physik
. He wrote about 80 original professional papers, 40 review articles and 5 major textbooks.
Personal life
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J. Łopusza?ski had a son named Maciej with Halina Pidek, and after divorcing her, was married to Barbara Zasłonka.
His hobbies are reported to be baroque music and gardening.
On 30 April 2008 Jan Łopusza?ski died of a
heart attack
in his home in Wrocław.
References
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Textbooks by J. Łopusza?ski:
- Łopusza?ski, J., Pawlikowski A.:
Fizyka Statystyczna
, PWN Warszawa (1969).
- Łopusza?ski, J.:
An Introduction to the Conventional Quantum Field Theory
, Wroclaw University (1976).
- Łopusza?ski, J.:
Rachunek Spinorow
, PWN Warszawa (1985).
- Łopusza?ski, J.:
Introduction to Symmetry and Supersymmetry in Quantum Field Theory
, World Scientific (1991)
- Łopusza?ski, J.:
The Inverse Variational Problem in Classical Mechanics
, Eds. Word Scientific (1999)
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