Gabriele veneziano biography definition

What led you to the 1968 paper for which you are most famous?

In the mid-1960s we theorists were stuck in trying to understand the strong interaction. We had an example of a relativistic quantum theory that worked: QED, the theory of interacting electrons and photons, but it looked hopeless to copy that framework for the strong interactions. One reason was the strength of the strong coupling compared to the electromagnetic one. But even more disturbing was that there were so many (and ever growing in number) different species of hadrons that we felt at a loss with field theory – how could we cope with so many different states in a QED-like framework? We now know how to do it and the solution is called quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

But things weren’t so clear back then. The highly non-trivial jump from QED to QCD meant having the guts to write a theory for entities (quarks) that nobody had ever seen experimentally. No one was ready for such a logical jump, so we tried something else: an S-matrix approach. The S-matrix, which relates the initial and final states of a quantum-mechanical process, allows one to directly calculate the probabilities of scattering processes without solving a quantum field theory such as QED. This is why it looked more promising. It was also looking very conventional but, eventually, led to something even more revolutionary than QCD – the idea that hadrons are actually strings.

Is it true that your “eureka” moment was when you came across the Euler beta function in a textbook?

Not at all! I was taking a bottom-up approach to understand the strong interaction. The basic idea

Gabriele Veneziano,  College de France, Paris; CERNLabs, Geneva, Switzerland

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Dear Prof. Dr. Gabriele Veneziano:

Base-2 exponential notation from the Planck base units easily describes the expansion of the universe, be it the big bang or the natural units of Planck.

Stephen Hawking casually states within one of his last television appearances, “Everything in existence, expanding exponentially in every direction, from an infinitely small, infinitely hot, infinitely dense point, creating a cosmos filled with energy and matter.” (May 2016, PBS-TV series, Genius).

If the Planck base units are assumed, base-2 notation provides real numbers for each of the 202 notations outlining the universe from Planck Time and the physics of the very small to this day and the physics of the very large.

It is a very different approach to the basics and given the richness of its simple mathematics, it is readily tested against real data. Our very preliminary work in that effort has been surprisingly on target. Are we just spinning our wheels or might there be some merit in this work?

Thank you.

Warm regards,

Bruce

PS. This is my sixth email to you. Those six emails and references to your work are online here: https://81018.com/2019/05/07/veneziano/ A reference to you within the current homepage —https://81018.com/reformat/ — is here: https://81018.com/reformat/#Veneziano and here: https://81018.com/reformat/#Emails -BEC

Dear Prof. Dr. Gabriele Veneziano:

When our simple logic is too simple, it would seem that scholars could dispel its lack of efficacy or extensibility rather quickly. One such assertion is about the conceptual

Italian theoretical physicist

Gabriele Veneziano (VEN-ət-see-AN-oh,Italian:[ɡabriˈɛːlevenetˈtsjaːno]; born 7 September 1942) is an Italian theoretical physicist widely considered the father of string theory. He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and held the Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France in Paris from 2004 to 2013, until the age of retirement there.

Life

Gabriele Veneziano was born in Florence. In 1965, he earned his Laurea in Theoretical Physics from the University of Florence under the direction of Raoul Gatto [it]. He pursued his doctoral studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and obtained his PhD in 1967 under the supervision of Hector Rubinstein. During his stay in Israel, he collaborated, among others, with Marco Ademollo (a professor in Florence) and Miguel Virasoro (an Argentinian physicist who later became a professor in Italy). During his years at MIT, he collaborated with many colleagues, primarily with Sergio Fubini (an MIT professor, later a member of the Theory Division and of the Directorate at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland).

Between 1968 and 1972 he worked at MIT and was a summer visitor of the Theory Division at CERN. In 1972 he accepted the Amos de Shalit Professor of Physics chair at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. In 1976-1978 he accepted a permanent position in the Theory Division at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, a position that he held until the age of retirement in 2007 and where he has been since then Honorary member. Between 1994 and 1997, he was Director of the Theory Division. He also held the chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the College of France in Paris, France (2004-2013), of which he is currently an Honorary Professor. He visited many