Roman Jackiw

Roman Jackiw
Jackiw in 2013
Born	(1939-11-08)8 November 1939 Lubliniec, General Government (present-day Poland)
Died	14 June 2023(2023-06-14) (aged 83)
Alma mater	Cornell Swarthmore
Known for	Adler–Bell–Jackiw anomaly Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity Theta vacuum
Children	Stefan Jackiw Nicholas Jackiw
Awards	Dirac Medal (1998) Heineman Prize (1995)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	MIT
Thesis	Nonperturbative solutions of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the vertex function (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Hans Bethe Kenneth G. Wilson
Doctoral students	Andrea diSessa Andrew Strominger Joseph Lykken

Roman Wladimir Jackiw (/roʊˈmæn dʒæˈkiːv/; Ukrainian: Роман Володимир Яцків, romanized: Roman Volodymyr Yatskiv; 8 November 1939 – 14 June 2023) was a Polish-born American theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist.