Robert Jaffe

Robert L. Jaffe is an American physicist and the Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was formerly director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. Jaffe was born in Bath, Maine in 1946 and educated in public schools in Stamford, Connecticut. He received his A.B. degree in Physics, summa cum laude, from Princeton University, where he was valedictorian of the Class of 1968. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1971 and 1972, respectively. At Stanford he founded the Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues. In 1972, Jaffe came to MIT as a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Theoretical Physics; he joined the faculty in...