Lee Smolin

Lee Smolin

54 years old
Harvard University alumni, Quantum Gravity physicist, Loop quantum gravity, quantum mechanics, American, fecund universes…cosmic landscape theory, stringtheory
Lee Smolin (born 1955 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and...

Luboš Motl

male, 36 years old
global warming, Doctor of Philosophy, blog, gauge theory, AdS/CFT, supersymmetry…string theorist, Matrix string theory, stringtheory
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...
Edward Witten

Edward Witten

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

Leonard Susskind

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

Michio Kaku

male, 62 years old
electromagnetism, Harvard University, Theoretical physicist, string theorist, Dr. Michio Kaku, einstein…superstring theory, stringtheory, string field theory, Theory of Everything
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring...
Peter Woit

Peter Woit

male
supersymmetric, degrees of freedom, Quantum Gravity, Standard Model, lecturer, pauli exclusion principle…stringtheory
Peter Woit is a mathematical physicist at Columbia University. He obtained his PhD in particle theory from Princeton University in 1985, followed...
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…string theorist, stringtheory
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, string theorist, Standard Model…stringtheory
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…stringtheory, string theorist, 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...
Theodor Kaluza

Theodor Kaluza

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