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Gian-Carlo Wick
Gian-Carlo Wick
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Gian-CarIo Wick's name is also associatec! with the Wick rotation, a theoretical technique using imaginary time, which hac!
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particle physics from the 1930s, when he was a close associate of Enrico Fermi in Rome, to the 1970s, when he worker! with Tsung Dao Lee at Columbia.
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after retiring from Columbia. In his talk on the occasion of the symposium marking the retirement of Gian-Cario Wick from Scuola NormaTe in ~ 984, Tsung Dao Lee recallec!
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a Laurea degree in physics from the University of Turin in 1930, with a thesis on the electronic theory of metals, for which his main mentor was G Wataghin, who was the first teacher of quantum mechanics in Turin.
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I remember Wick recalling Roman cafe discussions with E Majorana, who was a great pioneer in the description of particles in terms of quantum fielcis, with the resulting symmetry between particle en c!
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be easily entices! later to give a Tong series of lectures on symmetries at the Les Houches summer school in the French Alps, when I was running a session there in 1965.
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review articles en c! lecture notes, in particular on meson theory en c!
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"Evaluation of the collision matrix" (1950) , shows how to concluct explicit practical calculations starting from the formal relations of relativistic quantum field!
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to swear in that loyalty oath that he hac! never been a member of the Communist party, considering that the question brought an intolerable limitation to the liberty of thought.
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to Scuola Normale, he became a regular summer visitor for one month. Of particular importance cluring his time at Carnegie Tech was his work on the Bethe-Salpeter equation, where the Wick rotation appears.
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But people recall his beautiful lectures, his pertinent interventions in seminars, en c! many wonclerfuT conversations.
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physics. He was a man of extreme intellectual honesty, whose ethical judgment came before material advantages, quaTities clemonstratec!
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his important contributions to meson theory en c! to symmetry properties will all Tong remain in physics textbooks.
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346 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS will also be the wonclerfuT memory that is kept preciously by all those who hac! the privilege to know him.
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57:945. Genetic relation between electronic and mesotronic components of cosmic rays near and above sea level.
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96:1124. 1955 Introduction to some recent work in meson theory.
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Gordon and Breach. 1966 Space inversion, time reversal and other discrete symmetries in local field theories.
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