What is Geoffrey Chew?
{{For|the British musicologist|Geoffrey Chew (musicologist)}} [[File:Geoffrey F Chew.JPG|thumb|Chew in July 2014]] '''Geoffrey Foucar Chew''' (June 5, 1924 – April 11, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] [[theoretical physicist]]. He was known for his [[bootstrap model|bootstrap theory]] of strong interactions. He also worked on the [[Manhattan Project]]. He was a [[professor]] of [[physics]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] from 1957. He was an [[emeritus]] professor from 1991 at Berkeley. He was also a physics faculty at the [[University of Illinois]] from 1950 to 1956. He was a student of [[Enrico Fermi]]. Chew's students included [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]-winning [[David Gross]], and [[John Henry Schwarz]]. His awards included the Hughes Prize (1962), [[Lawrence Prize]] (1969) and Majorana Prize (2008). Chew was born in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/geoffrey-f-chew|title=Geoffrey F. Chew|publisher=Atomic Heritage Foundation|access-date=April 18, 2019}}</ref> He studied at the [[University of Chicago]]. He died on April 11, 2019 in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[California]]. He was 94.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://physics.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/20190415/remembering-geoffrey-chew|title=Remembering Geoffrey Chew|publisher=[[University of California, Berkeley]]|date=April 15, 2019|access-date=April 18, 2019|archive-date=April 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428135115/https://physics.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/20190415/remembering-geoffrey-chew|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * [https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/geoffrey-chew Geoffrey Chew] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417100647/https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/geoffrey-chew |date=2019-04-17 }} at Berkeley Physics {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chew, Geoffrey}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Academics from Washington, D.C.]] [[