John Benjamin Kogut (6 March 1945 in
Brooklyn) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in high energy physics.
Kogut received in 1971 his PhD from
Stanford University
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under
James Bjorken with thesis ''Quantum electrodynamics at infinite momentum: applications to high energy scattering''. From 1971 to 1973 he was a visiting scholar at the
Institute for Advanced Study and from 1971 to 1977 Assistant Professor of Physics at
Cornell University. For 27 years he was on the physics faculty of the Loomis Laboratory at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, retiring in 2005 as professor emeritus. Since then, he has been a Program Manager at the
United States Department of Energy,
Office of Science (SC), Office of High Energy Physics.
Kogut is known for the
Kogut-Susskind fermion and his collaboration with
Leonard Susskind on the Hamiltonian formulation of
Kenneth G. Wilson's lattice gauge theory. He also did research on the "infinite-momentum frame" (the subject of his PhD thesis) and the
parton model.
Kogut played a leading role in opposing the
Strategic Defense Initiative
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(''aka'' "Star Wars").
From 1976 to 1978 he was a Sloan Fellow. In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the
American Physical Society
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. For the academic year 1987–1988 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.
Selected publications
Articles
* Introduction to lattice gauge theory and spin systems, Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 51, 1979, pp. 659–713
* with
Kenneth G. Wilson: The Renormalization Group and the
-Expansion, Physics Reports, vol. 12, 1975, pp. 75–199
* with Leonard Susskind: Everything you always wanted to know about partons, but were afraid to ask, Physics Reports vol. 8, 1973, p. 75
Books
* with Michail Stephanov: The phases of Quantum Chromodynamics, Cambridge University Press 2004
* Introduction to relativity, Academic Press 2001
References
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1945 births
Living people
21st-century American physicists
Stanford University alumni
University of Illinois faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society