Luboš Motl

male, 36 years old
global warming, Doctor of Philosophy, blog, gauge theory, AdS/CFT, supersymmetry…stringtheorist, Matrix string theory, string theory
Lubos Motl, in Czech Luboš Motl is a Czech theoretical physicist who works on string theory and conceptual problems of quantum gravity. Motl was b...
Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind

male
Stanford University, quantum field theory, stringtheorist, American, Theoretical physicist, Stanford University faculty…string theory
Leonard Susskind (born 1940) is the Felix Bloch professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University in the field of string theory and quantum...
Edward Witten

Edward Witten

male, 58 years old (United States)
Jewish person, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, American, m-theory, Fields Medalist, stringtheorist…string theory
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He...
Brian Greene

Brian Greene

male, 46 years old
scientist, Jewish American, agnostic, defined Erdős–Bacon number, prodigy, rhodes scholar…stringtheorist
Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia...
Nima Arkani-Hamed

Nima Arkani-Hamed

male, 37 years old
University of California, Berkeley alumni, Stock Exchange of Visions, University of Toronto alumni, Harvard University faculty, immigrant to Canada, Particle physicist…stringtheorist, string theory
Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972) is a leading particle physicist and applied string theorist. He was born in the USA to Iranian parents (also...
Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall

female, 47 years old
Randall-Sundrum model, Harvard University alumni, Harvard University, American Physical Society, stringtheorist, Standard Model…string theory
Lisa Randall (born 18 June, 1962) is a leading theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string theory and cosmology. She works on...
David Gross

David Gross

male, 68 years old
Jewish, Nobel Prize in Physics, Quantum Chromodynamics' physicist, Quantum chromodynamics, Quarks, David Politzer…string theory, stringtheorist, heterotic string
David Jonathan Gross is an American particle physicist and string theorist (although he's stated to the Brazilian newspaper "Folha de São Paulo", o...
Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku

male, 62 years old
electromagnetism, Harvard University, Theoretical physicist, stringtheorist, Dr. Michio Kaku, einstein…string theory, string field theory
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring...
Theodor Kaluza

Theodor Kaluza

male, deceased (1954)
Province of Silesia, atomic nucleus, Oppeln, German Empire, University of Göttingen, German native of Silesia…string theory, stringtheorist
Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza-Klein theory involving field equations in...
Jacques Distler

Jacques Distler

male
ArXiv, blog, string theory landscape, landscape, University of Texas at Austin faculty, blogger…string theory, stringtheorist
Jacques Distler (born 1961) is a physicist currently working in string theory. He has been a professor of physics at the University of Texas at...