Stanley Deser

Stanley Deser
Born	(1931-03-19)March 19, 1931 Równe, Poland (now Rivne, Ukraine)
Died	April 21, 2023(2023-04-21) (aged 92) Pasadena, California, U.S.
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	Harvard University (Ph.D)
Known for	ADM formalism Boulware–Deser ghost Quantum gravity Pure 4D N = 1 supergravity Conformal anomaly 2+1 dimensional gravities and Chern–Simons quantum field theory Partially massless systems in anti-de Sitter space
Awards	Einstein Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize, Guggenheim Fellow,[1] Fulbright Fellow, Fellow of the American Physical Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Italy
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	California Institute of Technology, Brandeis University
Doctoral advisor	Julian Seymour Schwinger
Notable students	Lee Smolin

Stanley Deser (March 19, 1931 – April 21, 2023) was an American physicist known for his contributions to general relativity. He was an emeritus Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and a senior research associate at California Institute of Technology.