Ray Streater
Raymond Frederick Streater is a British physicist, and professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics at King's College London. He is best known for co-authoring a text on quantum field theory, the 1964 PCT, Spin and Statistics and All That.
Life
Ray Streater was born on 21 April 1936 in Three Bridges, Worth, Sussex, England. He married Mary Patricia née Palmer in 1962, and they had three children, including Stephen Bernard.Streater's career may be summarised as follows.
- Jan.-Sep. 1960 – Research Fellow, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- 1960-1961 – Instructor in Physics, Princeton University, NJ, USA
- 1961-1964 – Assistant Lecturer in Physics, Imperial College, London
- 1964-1967 – Lecturer in Physics, Imperial College, London
- 1967-1969 – Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Imperial College, London
- 1969-1984 – Professor of Applied Mathematics, Bedford College, London
- 1984-2001 – Professor of Applied Mathematics, King's College London
- Oct. 2001 on – Emeritus Professor, King's College London
Works
He has also become interested in the dynamics of quantum systems that are not in a pure state, but are large. This is expressed in