{"id":620,"date":"2007-11-19T17:43:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T22:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=620"},"modified":"2017-10-01T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T21:32:13","slug":"sidney-coleman-1937-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Coleman 1937-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned today the sad news of the death of Sidney Coleman, yesterday at the age of seventy.  Coleman had been in quite poor health in recent years.  I wrote about him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=171\">here<\/a> back in 2005, after attending a conference held at Harvard in his honor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  More from <a href=\"http:\/\/betsydevine.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/20\/our-friend-sidney-coleman-has-left-the-planet\/\">Betsy Devine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/sidney-coleman-1937-2007.html\">Lubos Motl<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2007\/11\/19\/sidney-coleman\/\">Sean Carroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned today the sad news of the death of Sidney Coleman, yesterday at the age of seventy. Coleman had been in quite poor health in recent years. I wrote about him here back in 2005, after attending a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=620\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}