Jorge A. Swieca

Jorge André Swieca was a Brazilian physicist born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936.^[1] He was mostly active in quantum field theory (QFT), particularly during the 1960s and 1970s.^[1] A series of summer schools is named after him.^[2]

Swieca fled Poland with his parent during World War II, shortly after it was occupied by Russia and Germany.^[1] They spent two years in Japan, before moving to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[1] He obtained his Ph.D from the University of São Paulo under Werner Güttinger in 1964.^[1] He died in December 1980, after complications from a heart bypass surgery.^[1][3] In the late 1960s, he received the Brazilian Santista science prize.^[1]

Important publications

• R. Haag; J.A. Swieca (1965). "When does a quantum field theory describe particles?" (PDF). Communications in Mathematical Physics. 1 (4): 308. Bibcode:1965CMaPh...1..308H. doi:10.1007/BF01645906. S2CID 120204056.