Jan Smit

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Jan Smit

Physics

#1943

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#2941

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Jan Smit 's Degrees

• Bachelors Physics University of Amsterdam
• Masters Physics University of Amsterdam
• PhD Physics Delft University of Technology

Why Is Jan Smit Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Jan Smit is a Dutch theoretical physicist. During his PhD at UCLA with professor Robert Finkelstein he made some early contributions to lattice formulation of quantum field theory around 1972, which was a year before Kenneth Wilson, and two years before Alexander Polyakov. However, he encountered some problems with fermion doubling which he could not solve at the moment. At that time he did not realize the value of his work and he only mentioned it briefly in his Ph.D. thesis in 1974, which was about Schwinger source theory. A few years later he returned to working on the lattice formulation and became a well-known expert in the field.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Jan Smit ?

Jan Smit is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Amsterdam
• Utrecht University
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Eindhoven University of Technology
• Delft University of Technology
• Leiden University