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2 unusual facts about Roman Jackiw

Atiyah–Singer index theorem

In 1978 Constantine Callias, at the suggestion of his Ph.D. advisor Roman Jackiw, used the axial anomaly to derive this index theorem on spaces equipped with a Hermitian matrix called the Higgs field.

Roman Jackiw

He was a professor at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics from 1969 until his retirement.

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