Roman Jackiw

Roman Jackiw
Roman Jackiw
Роман Володимир Яцків
	Jackiw in 2013
Born	Roman Volodymyr Yatskiv; 8 November 1939; Lubliniec, General Government (present-day Poland)
Died	14 June 2023 (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; November 8, 1939 – June 14, 2023) was a Polish-born American theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist.