Sidney Dancoff
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Sidney Michael Dancoff (September 27, 1913 in Philadelphia – August 15, 1951 in Urbana, Illinois) was an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED).
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Sidney Dancoff | |
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Born | (1913-09-27)September 27, 1913 |
Died | August 15, 1951(1951-08-15) (aged 37) |
Alma mater | University of California at Berkeley |
Known for | Tamm–Dancoff approximation |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Three problems in quantum mechanics (1939) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Oppenheimer |
Doctoral students | Sidney Drell |
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