Herman Verlinde
Herman Louis Verlinde (born January 21, 1962 in Woudenberg ) is a Dutch physicist who deals with string theory.
Live and act
Herman Verlinde attended grammar school in Utrecht and then studied from 1980 at the University of Utrecht , where he received his doctorate from Gerardus' t Hooft in 1988 ("The path integral formulation of supersymmetric string theory"). Then he was from 1988 at Princeton University , where he became an assistant professor in 1990. From 1994 he was at the University of Amsterdam , where he became professor in 1995. From 1998 he is a professor at Princeton. In 1997 he was co-organizer of the "Strings 97" conference in Amsterdam.
He was a Sloan Research Fellow from 1994 to 1997 and a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences from 1994 to 1998 .
Herman Verlinde is the twin brother of Erik Verlinde , who is also known as a string theorist and with whom he worked partially.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herman Verlinde in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Verlinde, Herman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verlinde, Herman Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woudenberg |