论文标题
大卫·奥利夫（David Olive）：他的生活和工作
David Olive: his life and work
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论文摘要
戴维·奥利弗（David Olive）于2012年11月7日在剑桥郡巴顿（Barton）去世，享年75岁，是一位理论物理学家，他对弦理论的发展以及我们对量子场理论结构的理解做出了开创性的贡献。在$ s $ -matrix理论的早期工作中，他帮助提供了最初制定弦理论的概念框架。他与gliozzi和Scherk在弦理论中的超对称性有关的工作使整个supersrins的想法成为可能，现在被理解为弦理论的自然框架。奥利夫（Olive）关于仪表理论中电气和磁性物体之间二重性的开创性见解超出了他们的时间。他大胆而勇敢的双重性猜想开始被理解为二十年。尽管有些安静和保留，但他对他人的陪伴感到高兴，与学生和同事慷慨解囊地分享了他对新想法的新理解。他不仅通过他原始作品的深度和远见，而且是因为他对新的和困难的思想和理论的说明的清晰，简单和优雅，还为学生和理论物理学社区提供了新兴领域的途径。
David Olive, who died in Barton, Cambridgeshire, on 7 November 2012, aged 75, was a theoretical physicist who made seminal contributions to the development of string theory and to our understanding of the structure of quantum field theory. In early work on $S$-matrix theory, he helped to provide the conceptual framework within which string theory was initially formulated. His work, with Gliozzi and Scherk, on supersymmetry in string theory made possible the whole idea of superstrings, now understood as the natural framework for string theory. Olive's pioneering insights about the duality between electric and magnetic objects in gauge theories were way ahead of their time; it took two decades before his bold and courageous duality conjectures began to be understood. Although somewhat quiet and reserved, he took delight in the company of others, generously sharing his emerging understanding of new ideas with students and colleagues. He was widely influential, not only through the depth and vision of his original work, but also because the clarity, simplicity and elegance of his expositions of new and difficult ideas and theories provided routes into emerging areas of research, both for students and for the theoretical physics community more generally.
