Lars Brink

Lars Brink
Lars Elof Gustaf Brink
Announcement of the Nobelprize in Physics, 2011
Born(1943-11-12)November 12, 1943
Died29 October 2022(2022-10-29) (aged 78)
CitizenshipSwedish
EducationUniversity of Gothenburg
Known forSupersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, superstrings
Scientific career
Jan S. Nilsson [sv]
Doctoral students
Ingemar Bengtsson, Martin Cederwall, Bengt EW Nilsson

Lars Elof Gustaf Brink (12 November 1943 - 29 October 2022) was a Swedish theoretical physicist.

He made significant and well-cited contributions in supersymmetry, supergravity, superspace, and superstrings, and the connections among them. In 1977, with John Schwarz and Joël Scherk, he introduced the first supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories.

During 1971–1973, he was member of the theory group at CERN.

Starting in 1986, he had been professor of theoretical physics at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg. Brink was one of the pioneers of superstring theory, since the 1970s (at CERN and Caltech). He coordinated the EU network Superstring Theory 1991–1995 and 2000–2008.

In 1997 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In 2001, 2004 and from 2008 to 2013 he was a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics and its chairman in 2013.

References

  1. ↑ "Lars Brink 1943–2022". March 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Lars Brink 1943–2022". CERN Courier. 2023-03-01. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  3. ↑ Brink, L., Di Vecchia, P., & Howe, P. (1976). "A locally supersymmetric and reparametrization invariant action for the spinning string", Physics Letters B65(5), 471-474. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(76)90445-7; Green, Michael; Schwarz, John; Brink, Lars (1982). "N=4 Yang-Mills and N=8 Supergravity as Limits of String Theories". Nucl Phys. B198 (3): 474–492. Bibcode:1982NuPhB.198..474G. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(82)90336-4.
  4. ↑ Brink, Lars; Schwarz, John; Scherk, Joël (1977). "Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories". Nuclear Physics. B121 (1): 77–92. Bibcode:1977NuPhB.121...77B. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(77)90328-5. ISSN 0550-3213.
  5. ↑ "Inspire author profile page for Brink, Lars".
  6. ↑ "UM RECEIVES FORMER NOBEL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN". Macau Daily Times. February 4, 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "Seminar "Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes" by Prof. Lars Brink (see "biography")". 5 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences : members".
  9. ↑ "In Memory of Lars Brink (1943 – 2022)". www.worldscientific.com. doi:10.1142/news20221109.136064 (inactive 12 July 2025). Retrieved 2023-03-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)