David Olive
David Olive | |
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| Born | David Ian Olive 16 April 1937 Middlesex, England |
| Died | 7 November 2012 (aged 75) Cambridge, England |
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Jenny Olive (m. 1963) |
| Awards | Dirac Medal |
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| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Workplaces | University of Cambridge Carnegie Institute of Technology CERN Imperial College London University of Swansea |
| Thesis | Unitarity and S-matrix theory (1963) |
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Doctoral students | Neil Turok Ed Corrigan Andrew Crumey |
David Ian Olive CBE FRS FLSW (/ˈɒlɪv/ (ⓘ); 16 April 1937 – 7 November 2012) was a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to string theory and duality theory, he is particularly known for his work on the GSO projection and Montonen–Olive duality.
He was professor of physics at Imperial College, London, from 1984 to 1992. In 1992 he moved to Swansea University to help set up the new theoretical physics group.
He was awarded the Dirac Prize and Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1997. He was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1987, and appointed CBE in 2002.