Emil Martinec
Emil John Martinec (born October 4, 1958 in Downers Grove , Illinois ) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with string theory.
Martinec studied physics and mathematics at Northwestern University from 1976 with a bachelor's degree in 1979 and then at Cornell University , where he worked with Michael Peskin in 1984 with his thesis Quantum Mechanics vs. General Covariance in Gravity and String Models doctorate was. From 1982 to 1984 he was at SLAC , conducted research from 1984 to 1986 at Princeton University and in 1986 was a visiting scientist at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara . In 1986 he became Assistant Professor , 1987 Associate Professor and 1990 Professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago .
With David Gross , Jeff Harvey and Ryan Rohm ( Princeton String Quartet ) he discovered one of the five superstring theories in 1985, the heterotic string theory.
In addition to string theory and M-theory, he also deals with quantum gravity, two-dimensional quantum field theory, and black hole physics.
From 1987 to 1991 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and from 1987 to 1992 Presidential Young Investigator of the National Science Foundation .
Fonts
- Black Holes and the phases of Brane Thermodynamics, Cargèse Lectures 1999
- M-Theory and N = 2 Strings, Cargèse Lectures 1997
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Emil Martinec in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Gross, Harvey, Martinec, Rohm Heterotic String , Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 (1985) 502, the same Heterotic Strings I. The Free Heterotic String , Nucl. Phys. B256 (1985) 253, Heterotic Strings II. The Interacting Heterotic String Nucl. Phys. B267 (1986) 75
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| SURNAME | Martinec, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martinec, Emil John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Downers Grove , Illinois |