Donald Robert Yennie (March 4, 1924 – April 14, 1993) was an American theoretical physicist and professor at Cornell University. He is known for his work on renormalization in quantum electrodynamics and for early work on the structure of nucleons.[1]
Biography
editYennie was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on March 4, 1924, to Reinhart Yennie and Ella "Ellie" Clark.[2] Raised in Midland Park, New Jersey, Yennie graduated from Pompton Lakes High School in 1941.[3] He obtained his MA in physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology and his PhD in physics at Columbia University. He became professor at Cornell University in 1964 after working at Institute for Advanced Study, Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978.[4]
His Ph.D. advisor was Nobel prize recipient Hideki Yukawa. Yennie himself was the Ph.D adviser of, among others, Thomas Appelquist and Stanley J. Brodsky.[5]
The covariant gauge choice ξ = 3 is named Yennie Gauge after him. In 1961, with Steven Frautschi and Hiroshi Suura, he elucidated the role of infrared photons properly summed in high-energy quantum electrodynamics.[6] This work was one of the keys to solving the problem of infrared divergences in gauge theories.[7]
References
edit- ^ Yennie, D. R.; Levy, M. M.; Ravenhall, D. G. (1957). "Electromagnetic Structure of Nucleons". Rev. Mod. Phys. 29 (1): 144–157. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.29.144.
- ^ Hand, L. N., Kinoshita, T. and Lepage, G. P. Physics Today, (1994). https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.2808586
- ^ "Gov't Scholarship Awarded to Yennie", Herald News, October 6, 1950. Accessed February 19, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Donald R. Yennie, president of the Student Council at Pompton Lakes High, School in 1941, has received a government scholarship..... Yennie resides at 268 Godwin Avenue, Midland Park."
- ^ "Donald R. Yennie". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ Profile, academictree.org. Accessed February 19, 2024.
- ^ Yennie, D. R., Steven C. Frautschi, and H. Suura (1961). "The infrared divergence phenomena and high-energy processes." Annals of Physics 13.3 379-452. doi:10.1016/0003-4916(61)90151-8
- ^ J. M. Jauch and F. Rohrlich, "The theory of photons and electrons. The relativistic quantum field theory of charged particles with spin one-half," Springer, 1976, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-80951-4