Jonathan Anders Bagger (born August 7, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in high energy physics and string theory. He is known for the Bagger–Lambert–Gustavsson action.

Biography

Bagger received his bachelor's degree in 1977 from

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. He spent the academic year 1977–1978 at the

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as a Churchill Scholar. In 1978 he became a graduate student in physics at

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, where he received his PhD in 1983. His doctoral thesis ''Matter Couplings in Supergravity Theories'' was supervised by

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. Bagger was a postdoc from 1983 to 1986 at the

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. He was from 1986 to 1989 an associate professor at Harvard University. At

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he became in 1989 a full professor, holding a professorial chair there until 2014. In 2014 Bagger was appointed director of

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, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. Bagger’s research deals with high-energy physics, supersymmetry, and string theory. He was at Princeton's

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for the academic year 1985–1986 and in 1998. He was elected in 1997 a Fellow of the

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and in 2008 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bagger was an associate editor of ''

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'' from 1990 to 1993 and of ''

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'' from 1998 to 2007. He joined in 1997 the editorial board of the ''

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'' and in 1998 the editorial board of ''

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''. On 18 June 1988 in

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he married Deborah Gay Dunham.

Publications

* Wess, Julius and Bagger, Jonathan (December 1983). ''Supersymmetry and Supergravity''. Princeton Series in Physics. / 0-691-08556-0 * Wess, Julius and Bagger, Jonathan (March 1992)
''Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Revised and Expanded Edition''
Princeton Series in Physics. * as editor:

References

External links

* * * 1955 births Living people Dartmouth College alumni Princeton University alumni American string theorists Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science {{physicist-stub