| Lars Brink | |
| Native Name: | Lars Elof Gustaf Brink |
| Birth Date: | 12 November 1943 |
| Death Date: | [1] |
| Citizenship: | Swedish |
| Nationality: | Swedish |
| Alma Mater: | University of Gothenburg |
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| Doctoral Advisor: | Jan S. Nilsson |
| Doctoral Students: | Ingemar Bengtsson |
| Known For: | Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, superstrings |
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Lars Elof Gustaf Brink (12 November 1943 - 29 October 2022) was a Swedish theoretical physicist.[2]
He made significant and well-cited contributions in supersymmetry, supergravity, superspace, and superstrings, and the connections among them.[3] In 1977, with John Schwarz and Joël Scherk, he introduced the first supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories.[4]
During 1971–1973, he was member of the theory group at CERN.[5]
Starting in 1986, he had been professor of theoretical physics at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg.[6] Brink was one of the pioneers of superstring theory, since the 1970s (at CERN and Caltech). He coordinated the EU network Superstring Theory 1991–1995 and 2000–2008.[7]
In 1997 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[8]
In 2001, 2004 and from 2008 to 2013 he was a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics and its chairman in 2013.[9]