Peter Goddard (born
3
September 1945) is a
mathematical physicist who works in
string theory and
conformal field theory. Among his
manycontributions to these fields is the
no-ghost theorem (proved together with
Charles Thorn).
Goddard
was educated at Emanuel
School
and the University of Cambridge
, where he was a professor in DAMTP, founding deputy director of
theIsaac Newton Institute for Mathematical
Sciences
and, until 2004, Master of St John's
College
. He has been Director of the Institute for
Advanced Study
since January 2004.
He was elected to the
Royal Society in
1989, was awarded the
Dirac Prize and
Medal of the
International
Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1997, and was made a
Commander of the
Order of
the British Empire in 2002.
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