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Willy Fischler (born 1949 in Antwerp, Belgium) is a 
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theoretical physicist
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. He is the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin
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, where he is affiliated with the Weinberg theory group. He is also a certified Flight Paramedic ( FP-C) and was a Licensed Paramedic
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with Marble Falls Area EMS and a volunteer EMT with the Westlake Fire Department.
His contributions to physics include:
* Early computation of the force between heavy quarks.
* The DFSZ (Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnisky) model, as a solution to the strong CP problem.
* The cosmological effects of the invisible axion (with Michael Dine) and its role as a candidate for dark matter.
* Pioneering work (with Michael Dine and Mark Srednicki) on the use of supersymmetry to solve outstanding problems in the standard model of particle physics.
* The first formulation of what became known as the "moduli problem in cosmology" (with G.D. Coughlan, Edward Kolb, Stuart Raby and Graham Ross).
* The Fischler-Susskind mechanism in string theory (with Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940)his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent. is an American physicis ...
).
* The original formulation of the holographic entropy bound in the context of cosmology
Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', and in 1731 taken up in Latin by German philosopher ...
(with Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940)his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent. is an American physicis ...
).
* The discovery of M(atrix) theory, or BFSS Matrix Theory. M(atrix) theory is an example of a gauge/gravity duality (with Tom Banks, Steve Shenker
Stephen Hart Shenker (born 1953) is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is a professor at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His brother Scott Shenker is a com ...
and Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940)his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent. is an American physicis ...
).
* Black Hole production in colliders (with Tom Banks).
External links
Prof. Fischler's homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fischler, Willy Belgian physicists String theorists Living people University of Texas at Austin faculty Belgian emigrants to the United States Scientists from Antwerp 1949 births Theoretical physicists