David Olive

David Olive
Born	April 16, 1937 London, England
Died	November 7, 2012 (aged 75) Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Institutions	University of Cambridge CERN Imperial College London University of Swansea
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge
Thesis	Unitarity and S-matrix theory (1963)
Doctoral advisor	John Clayton Taylor
Doctoral students	Neil Turok[1] Edward Corrigan Andrew Crumey

David Ian Olive (/ˈɒlɪv/; 16 April 1937^[2] – 7 November 2012^[3]) CBE FRS FLSW, was a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to string theory and duality theory. (See GSO projection).

He was Professor of physics at Imperial College, London from 1984 to 1992.^[4] In 1992 he moved to Swansea University to help set up the new theoretical physics group.^[5]

He was awarded the Dirac Prize and Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1997.^[6] He was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Elected FRS 1987, and appointed CBE in 2002.^[4]

See also

• Montonen–Olive duality
• Scientific publications of David Olive on INSPIRE-HEP

References

1. David Olive at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. "Prof David Olive, CBE, FRS". Debretts. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
3. "David Ian Olive Obituary". The Times. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
4. "Professor David Olive. The Times. p54. 19 Dec 2012".
5. David Olive at Swansea University
6. Dirac medal

Further reading

• Professor David Olive. The Times. p54. 19 Dec 2012
• "Olive, David Ian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105903. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)