Andrew Strominger

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Andrew Eben Strominger (born July 30, 1955 in Cambridge , England) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist .

Strominger is the son of Jack L. Strominger , Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard. He studied at Harvard University (Bachelor in 1977) and received his PhD in 1982 under Roman Jackiw at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the thesis The Large Symmetry Approximation in Quantum Field Theory . In 1986 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). He is currently a professor at Harvard University.

His scientific contributions include work with Cumrun Vafa on the microscopic cause (in the context of string theory) of the entropy of black holes (which was thermodynamically calculated by Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein ), a work on the compactification of superstrings with Calabi-Yau manifolds ( with Philip Candelas , Gary Horowitz and Edward Witten ), work on the AdS / CFT correspondence (a variation of the AdS / CFT correspondence ), S-branes , OM theory (Open Membrane, with Nathan Seiberg and Shiraz Minwalla ), non-commutative solitons (with Shiraz Minwalla and Rajesh Gopakumar ), mirror symmetry and T-duality (with Eric Zaslow and Shing-Tung Yau ), as well as string theory .

With Horowitz, he was also one of those who found evidence of brane solutions to string theory in the early 1990s.

Strominger was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 . In 2008 he received the Eisenbud Prize .

Strominger was awarded the Physics Frontiers Prize , the Dirac Medal of the ICTP and the Oskar Klein Medal for 2014, the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics for 2016 and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for 2017 .

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  1. ↑ Andrew Strominger in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Strominger, Vafa Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy , Physical Letters B, Vol. 379, 1996, pp. 99-104, Arxiv
  3. ^ Vacuum configuration of superstrings, Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 258, 1985, pp. 46-76
  4. ↑ Strominger, Spradlin, Volovich: Les Houches Lectures on de Sitter Space, 2001
  5. ↑ Strominger, Yau, Zaslow Mirror Symmetry is T-Duality , Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 479, 1996, pp. 243-259
  6. ↑ Horowitz, Strominger Black strings and p-branes , Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 360, 1991, pp. 197-209
personal data
SURNAME Strominger, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strominger, Andrew Eben (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge