Sidney Coleman

Sidney Coleman
Born	(1937-03-07)March 7, 1937 Chicago, Illinois, US
Died	November 18, 2007(2007-11-18) (aged 70) Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Alma mater	Illinois Institute of Technology (B.Sc. 1957) Caltech (Ph.D. 1962)
Known for	Coleman theorem Coleman–Mandula theorem Coleman–Weinberg potential Q-ball
Awards	Fellow, National Academy of Sciences Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences NYAS Boris Pregel Award NAS J. Murray Lack Award NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (1989) Dirac Medal (1990) Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Quantum field theory
Institutions	Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Murray Gell-Mann
Doctoral students	Ian Affleck Mark Alford Carl M. Bender Jacques Distler David Griffiths Jeffrey Mandula Stephen Parke Leonard Parker David Politzer Lee Smolin Paul Steinhardt Erick Weinberg Anthony Zee
Other notable students	Edward Witten[1]

Sidney Richard Coleman (7 March 1937 – 18 November 2007) was an American theoretical physicist noted for his research in high-energy physics.