Steven Gubser
Steven Scott Gubser (born May 4, 1972 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ; † August 3, 2019 at Chamonix ) was an American theoretical physicist who dealt with string theory .
Life
In 1989 Gubser won the International Physics Olympiad as a student and in 1990 a silver medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad.
Gubser received his PhD from Princeton University in 1998 with Igor Klebanov . As a postdoctoral fellow , he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University . In 2000 he was back at Princeton University as an assistant professor . In 2001 he became a professor at Caltech and from 2002 he was a professor at Princeton.
He was one of the founders of the duality between gauge theory and gravitation (also AdS / CFT correspondence ), which makes it possible to describe four-dimensional gauge theories (preferably supersymmetrical gauge theories) through gravitational physics in five-dimensional curved spaces. He also applied this in the physics of quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions.
Gubser was a fellow of the American Physical Society . Gubser received the Gribov Medal from the European Physical Society and the Blavatnik Award from the New York Academy of Sciences . He was the Scientific Secretary for the Aspen Center of Physics . In 2009 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .
He died on August 3, 2019 in a climbing accident in the French Alps.
Fonts
- The little book of string theory , Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 2011
- with Joseph Lykken (Editor) Strings, branes and extra dimensions. Tasi 2001 , World Scientific 2004 (therein from Gubser Special holonomy in string theory and M-theory )
- with Juan Maldacena , Oz, Ooguri, Aharony Large N Field Theory, String Theory and Gravity , Physics Reports, Volume 323, 2000, pp. 183-386, Arxiv
- with Andreas Karch From gauge-string duality to strong interactions: a Pedestrian's Guide , Annual Review Nuclear Particle Science, Volume 59, 2009, pp. 145–168, Arxiv
- with Igor Klebanov , Alexander Markowitsch Poljakow Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory , Physics Letters B, Volume 428, 1998, pp. 105-114, Arxiv
- with Frans Pretorius : The little book of black holes , Princeton UP 2017
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gubser Gauge-String Duality and Heavy Ion Collisions , Arxiv, Preprint 2011
- ↑ Chamonix: un grimpeur fait une chute de 100m sur l'aiguille du Peigne accessed on August 8, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gubser, Steven |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gubser, Steven Scott |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4th 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tulsa , Oklahoma |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 2019 |
| Place of death | at Chamonix |