11 Facts About Geoffrey Chew

Geoffrey Foucar Chew was an American theoretical physicist.

Geoffrey Chew is known for his bootstrap theory of strong interactions.

Geoffrey Chew held a PhD in theoretical particle physics from the University of Chicago.

Geoffrey Chew was a founding member of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research.

Geoffrey Chew's students include David Gross, one of the winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, and John H Schwarz, one of the pioneers of string theory.

Geoffrey Chew was known as a leader of the S-matrix approach to the strong interaction and the associated bootstrap principle, a theory whose popularity peaked in the 1960s when he led an influential theory group at the University of California, Berkeley.

The conservative point of view was that the bound states were made up of elementary particles, but Geoffrey Chew's more far-reaching vision was that there would be a new type of theory which describes the interactions of bound-states which have no point-like constituents at all.

Geoffrey Chew investigated into models in which the concept of happenings or events play a fundamental role, not only particles.

Geoffrey Chew saw similarities among his approach and the notion of occasion of Alfred North Whitehead.

Geoffrey Chew received the Hughes Prize of the American Physics Society for his bootstrap theory of strong interactions in 1962.

Geoffrey Chew won the Lawrence Prize in 1969 and Majorana Prize in 2008.