David B. Fairlie (born in South Queensferry, Scotland, 1935) is a British mathematician and theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham (UK).
[1] He was educated in mathematical physics at the University of Edinburgh (BSc 1957), and he earned a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1960, under the supervision of John Polkinghorne.
He has made numerous influential contributions[2] in particle and mathematical physics, notably in the early formulation of string theory,[3] as well as the determination of the weak mixing angle in extra dimensions,[4] infinite-dimensional Lie algebras,[5] classical solutions of gauge theories, [6] higher-dimensional gauge theories,[7] and deformation quantization.
[8] He has co-authored several volumes, notably[9][10] on quantum mechanics in phase space.
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