Thomas Curtright

{{Short description|American theoretical physicist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Thomas Curtright

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1948}}

| birth_place = near Paris, Missouri

| alma_mater = University of Missouri
Caltech

| doctoral_advisor = Richard Feynman

| known_for = Curtright field

}}

Thomas L. Curtright (born 1948) is a theoretical physicist at the University of Miami. He did undergraduate work in physics at the

University of Missouri (B.S., M.S., 1970), and graduate work at Caltech (Ph.D., 1977) under the supervision of Richard Feynman.

He has made numerous influential contributionsProfessor Curtright's physics publications are available on the INSPIRE Database [http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=FIND+AU+CURTRIGHT&f=&action_search=Search] and the GoogleCite database [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aLCe79oAAAAJ&hl=en].

in particle and mathematical physics, notably in supercurrent anomalies,{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/0370-2693(77)90773-0| title = Conformal spinor current anomalies| journal = Physics Letters B| volume = 71| issue = 1| pages = 185–188| year = 1977| last1 = Curtright | first1 = T. |bibcode = 1977PhLB...71..185C }} higher-spin fields (Curtright field), quantum Liouville theory,{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1309| title = Conformally Invariant Quantization of the Liouville Theory| journal = Physical Review Letters| volume = 48| issue = 19| pages = 1309| year = 1982| last1 = Curtright | first1 = T. | last2 = Thorn | first2 = C. |bibcode = 1982PhRvL..48.1309C }} geometrostatic sigma models, quantum algebras, and deformation quantization.

Curtright is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1998), a co-recipient (with Charles Thorn) of the SESAPS Jesse W. Beams Award (2005), a recipient of the SESAPS Francis G. Slack Award (2024), a University of Miami Cooper Fellow (2008), and a recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award from the University's Senate (2008). He is also the recipient of Distinguished Alumni Awards from the Department of Physics and Astronomy (2021) and from the College of Arts and Science (2022), University of Missouri at Columbia.

He has co-edited and co-authored several books,http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n92082148/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}

notably on quantum mechanics in phase space.Cosmas K. Zachos, David B. Fairlie, and Thomas L. Curtright, Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2005) {{ISBN|978-981-238-384-6}}

[http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/5287.html].Thomas L Curtright, David B Fairlie, Cosmas K Zachos, A Concise Treatise on Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2014) {{ISBN|9789814520430}}