Clifford Johnson
Clifford Victor Johnson (born March 5, 1968 in London ) is a British theoretical physicist who specializes in string theory , black holes , quantum gravity and related fields. He is a professor at the University of Southern California .
Johnson graduated from Imperial College London with a bachelor's degree in 1989 and received his PhD from the University of Southampton in 1992 (with Tim Morris). As a post-doctoral student he was at the Institute for Advanced Study until 1994 and then at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara . From 1995 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky and in 2003 Professor at the University of Southern California.
He is a scientific advisor to the Discovery Channel and has appeared in various documentaries such as The Universe (2007) . Johnson founded the African Summer Theory Institute (ASTI), a month-long conference at various locations in Africa, which took place in Cape Town in 2004.
He wrote a standard work on D-brane .
In 2005 he received the Maxwell Medal and in 1997 a National Science Foundation Career Award.
Fonts
- Johnson D-Branes , Cambridge University Press 2003
- D-Brane Primer, 2000
Web links
- Clifford Johnson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homepage
- His blog Asymptotia
- Johnson at Science Heros
Individual evidence
- ↑ Career data based on American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Filmography: Clifford Johnson (II). IMDb, accessed on August 28, 2013 .
- ↑ ASTI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Johnson, Clifford |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, Clifford Victor (full name); Johnson, Clifford V. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th March 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |