11 Facts About John Iliopoulos

1.

John Iliopoulos is the first person to present the Standard Model of particle physics in a single report.

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2.

John Iliopoulos is best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Glashow and Luciano Maiani .

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3.

John Iliopoulos is known for demonstrating the cancellation of anomalies in the Standard model.

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4.

John Iliopoulos is further known for the Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term formula, which was introduced in 1974.

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5.

John Iliopoulos is currently an honorary member of Laboratory of theoretical physics of Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

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6.

John Iliopoulos graduated from National Technical University of Athens in 1962 as a Mechanical-Electrical Engineer.

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7.

In 2002, John Iliopoulos was the first recipient of the Aristeio prize, which has been instituted to recognize Greeks who have made significant contributions towards furthering their chosen fields of science.

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8.

John Iliopoulos is a specialist in high energy theoretical physics and elementary particle physics.

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9.

John Iliopoulos was one of the pioneers of supersymetry, the hypothetical symmetry that links fermions and bosons.

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10.

John Iliopoulos showed that it has remarkable convergence properties and, in collaboration with P Fayet, he proposed a mechanism that leads to its spontaneous breakage.

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11.

John Iliopoulos studied some aspects of the quantum theory of gravitation as well as the mathematical properties of invariant gauge theories formulated in a non-commutative geometric space.

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