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Daniel Freedman received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1960, followed by an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1962 and 1964, respectively, with Raymond Sawyer as his thesis advisor. He held postdoctoral appointments at Imperial College, U.C. Berkeley, and Princeton before joining the faculty at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at SUNY Stony Brook. In 1980, he joined the MIT faculty in applied mathematics and was jointly appointed to the theoretical physics faculty in 2001. Professor Freedman's research primarily focuses on quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and string theory, with a particular emphasis on the role of supersymmetry. Over the years, his focus has shifted toward the computation of on-shell amplitudes in supersymmetric theories. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Dirac Medal in 1993, the Dannie Heineman Prize in 2006 (shared with Sergio Ferrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen), and the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2019. Furthermore, he is recognized as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society, and he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Joined MIT faculty in applied mathematics, jointly appointed to the faculty of theoretical physics.