1. Tait Institute of Math Phys
Peter Guthrie Tait
1831 – 1901
Chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh
Hamilton's Quaternions
Theory of Knots with Maxwell & Thomson
Trajectory of Golf Balls

2. Max Born (1882-1970) Nobel Prize 1954: quantum theory
Statistical interpretation of
quantum theory
Tait Professor at
Edinburgh University
Unfortunate Scandal:
Implicated in the Klaus Füchs
spying case; Füchs was an associate of Born in Edinburgh
Born was totally exonerated according to his secretary Ray Chester who still lives in Pennicuik outside Edinb.

3. Nicholas Kemmer ( )
Tait Professor of Mathematical Physics at Edinburgh
ETH (Zurich): An associate of Wolfgang Pauli
Kemmer Equations: Pions (Yukawa)
Helped me enormously in my effort to come to UK to do scientific research.

4. Wolfgang Pauli (1898-1988) Nobel Prize 1945
Exclusion Principle
Kemmer made interesting comments
137 bus in London had a special significance
Erdeli – Maths Professor in Edinburgh had a tremendous capacity for mental computing (like Indian Mathematician Ramanujan an associate of Hardy)

5. Peter Higgs Gauge Theory of Broken Symmetries Higgs Boson(s)
60s: Reader at Tait Institute of Math. Physics
Gave our Quantum Field Theory Lectures
Now: Emeritus Professor at Edinburgh

6. Academics at Tait Institute in 60s
Lecturers:
David Candlin (Computer liason with RHEL)
Lance Vick
Trevor Priest (now Senior Lecturer Exeter Univ)
Peter Osborne (now retired)
Ken Bowler (now Professor)
Research Fellows:
Mladen Martinis (now Professor at Zagrev)
Razmi (Pakistan)
......

7. Research Students Diploma in theTheory of Elementary Particle:
Ananda Amatya (Nepal) (Ph. D)
Klaus Büchner (Germany, now Prof. at Munich)
Geoffrey Henderson (Northern Ireland) (Ph. D)
Irshadullah Khan (Pakistan) (Ph. D)
Melvin Roberts (Wales)
Norman White (Scotland) (Ph. D)
Continuing Students:
Alan Richie

8. Research Students Hans Grimmer (now Professor at Zurich)
Alasdair Broadfoot (now at Napier Univ)
Dikran Tcharakian (Armenian)
David Wallace (Tait Professor; now Vice- Chancellor at Leicester University)
Alexander Newlands (research under Prof. Euan Squires of Durham University)
Komy ? (Egypt)
......

9. Research Interests Symmetry Groups for Particles Quantum Field Theory
Lie Algebra, Unitary groups
Quantum Field Theory
Spontaneous break down of symmetries
S-Matrix Theory
Complex angular momentum, Regge Poles
Phase Analysis of Hadron Interactions
Dispersion Relations & Current Algebras

10. Sophus Lie (1842-1899) Lie Groups
Continuous groups of transformations (symmetry groups)
Howard Georgi, "Lie Algebras in Particle Physics", Second Edition, 1999
Sophus Class Library for Solving PDEs (Partial Differential Equations)

11. Paul Dirac (1902-1984) Nobel Prize 1933 Saw him in 1967 at Cambridge
Anti-particles
Saw him in 1967 at Cambridge
Dirac Equation
Positron

12. Stephen Hawkins
Was Introduced to Stephen By Bruno Renner at Cambridge in 1967
I owe much to Bruno for helping me in my research in Particle Physics. Sadly Bruno died in a climbing accident in 1973

13. Hans Bethe (1906-) Nobel Prize 1967
Nuclear energy in stars
Attended his lecture in 1969 at ICTP, Trieste

14. Murray Gell-Mann (1929-) Nobel Prize 1969
Classification of Particles and their interactions
Attended his seminar in at ICTP, Trieste
SU(3) matrices
Quarks

15. Sheldon Glashow (1932-) Nobel Prize 1979
Unified theory of Weak and Electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles
Attended Lectures by him (and Sidney Coleman) at Erice 1966 Summer School
SU(2)xU(1)
QCD

16. Abdus Salam (1926-1996) Nobel Prize 1979
Unified theory of Weak and Electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles
Met in ICTP Trieste in & 1969
Helped me to return to Europe. (I held a three month long visiting research fellowship at ICTP in 1969)

17. Stephen Weinberg (1933-) Nobel Prize 1979
Unified theory of Weak and Electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles
Attended a seminar by him at ICTP, Trieste, 1967
Peter Higgs rated his research papers very highly