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Sep 16, 1943 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands 80 years old
Dutch physicist
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About Jan Smit Physicist
- Jan Smit (born 16 September 1943, Amsterdam) is a Dutch theoretical physicist.
- During his PhD at UCLA with professor Robert Finkelstein he made some early contributions to lattice formulation of quantum field theory around 1972, which was a year before Kenneth Wilson, and two years before Alexander Polyakov.
- However, he encountered some problems with fermion doubling which he could not solve at the moment.
- At that time he did not realize the value of his work and he only mentioned it briefly in his Ph.D.
- thesis in 1974, which was about Schwinger source theory.
- A few years later he returned to working on the lattice formulation and became a well-known expert in the field. He works at the University of Amsterdam at the Institute of Theoretical Physics.
