Willy Fischler (born 1949 in

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, Belgium) is a

theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain, and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experi ...

. He is the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Physics at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

, where he is affiliated with the Weinberg theory group. He is also a certified Flight Paramedic ( FP-C) and was a Licensed

Paramedic A paramedic is a healthcare professional trained in the medical model, whose main role has historically been to respond to emergency calls for medical help outside of a hospital. Paramedics work as part of the emergency medical services (EMS), ...

with Marble Falls Area EMS and a volunteer EMT with the Westlake Fire Department. His contributions to physics include: * Early computation of the force between heavy quarks. * The DFSZ (Dine–Fischler–Srednicki–Zhitnisky) model, as a solution to the

strong CP problem The strong CP problem is a question in particle physics, which brings up the following quandary: why does quantum chromodynamics (QCD) seem to preserve CP-symmetry? In particle physics, CP stands for the combination of C-symmetry (charge conjugati ...

. * The cosmological effects of the invisible axion (with Michael Dine) and its role as a candidate for dark matter. * Pioneering work (with Michael Dine and Mark Srednicki) on the use of

supersymmetry Supersymmetry is a Theory, theoretical framework in physics that suggests the existence of a symmetry between Particle physics, particles with integer Spin (physics), spin (''bosons'') and particles with half-integer spin (''fermions''). It propo ...

to solve outstanding problems in the

Standard Model The Standard Model of particle physics is the Scientific theory, theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetism, electromagnetic, weak interaction, weak and strong interactions – excluding gravity) in the unive ...

of particle physics. * The first formulation of what became known as the "moduli problem in cosmology" (with G.D. Coughlan, Edward Kolb, Stuart Raby and Graham Ross). * The Fischler–Susskind mechanism in

string theory In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and intera ...

(with

Leonard Susskind Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940)his 60th birth anniversary was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent. is an Americ ...

). * The original formulation of the holographic entropy bound in the context of

cosmology Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', with the meaning of "a speaking of the wo ...

(with

). * The discovery of M(atrix) theory, or BFSS Matrix Theory. M(atrix) theory is an example of a gauge/gravity duality (with Tom Banks, Steve Shenker and

). * Black Hole production in colliders (with Tom Banks). Willy Fischler attending patient

References

External links

Prof. Fischler's homepageMedicMFAEMS
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