1. Arthur Michael Jaffe is an American mathematical physicist at Harvard University, where in 1985 he succeeded George Mackey as the Landon T Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science.
22 Facts About Arthur Jaffe
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Arthur Jaffe then returned to Princeton, obtaining a doctorate in physics in 1966 with Arthur Wightman.
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Arthur Jaffe was appointed as Professor of Physics in 1970, and had his title changed to Professor of Mathematical Physics in 1974.
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Arthur Jaffe has had many post-doctoral collaborators, including Robert Schrader, Konrad Osterwalder, Juerg Froehlich, Roland Seneor, Thomas Spencer, Antti Kupiainen, Krzysztof Gawedzki, Tadeusz Balaban, Andrew Lesniewski, Slawomir Klimek, Zhengwei Liu, and Kaifeng Bu.
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For several years Arthur Jaffe was president of the International Association of Mathematical Physics, and later of the American Mathematical Society.
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Arthur Jaffe served as chair of the board of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Theoretical Physics, from 2005 to 2020.
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Arthur Jaffe conceived the idea of the Clay Mathematics Institute and its programs, including the employment of research fellows and the Millennium Prizes in mathematics.
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Arthur Jaffe served as a founding member, a founding member of the board, and the founding president of that organization.
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Arthur Jaffe began as chief editor of Communications in Mathematical Physics in 1979 and served for 21 years until 2001.
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Arthur Jaffe served as distinguished visiting professor at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Arthur Jaffe began his research on the topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at which point the only local quantum field theory which had been constructed mathematically was the free field model.
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One recurring idea in Arthur Jaffe's works is the notion of reflection positivity, which was first introduced by Osterwalder and Schrader while they were Arthur Jaffe's post-doctoral fellows.
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Arthur Jaffe has made major contributions to the development of this theory, by establishing key examples, introducing important generalizations, and providing geometric interpretations.
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Arthur Jaffe is known for his mathematical proof of an aspect of the abelian Higgs mechanism.
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Arthur Jaffe is the author of several essays on the philosophy of mathematics and physics, with a special emphasis on the role of proof and rigor in these subjects.
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Arthur Jaffe is the recipient of numerous awards and honors.
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In 1980 Arthur Jaffe was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
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Arthur Jaffe has been an invited speak at many distinguished conferences, including the 1978 International Congress of Mathematicians at Helsinki.
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Additionally, Arthur Jaffe is a fellow of many mathematical societies, including the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, American Physical Society, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians, American Mathematical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Arthur Jaffe is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, US National Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.
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Arthur Jaffe was married from 1971 to 1992 to Nora Frances Crow and they had one daughter, Margaret Collins, born in 1986.
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Arthur Jaffe was married to artist Sarah Robbins Warren from 1992 to 2002.