
Leonard Susskind
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 84 |
Date of birth | May 20,1940 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | South Bronx |
New York | |
United States | |
Residence | United States Of America |
Fields | Physics |
Mathematics | |
Job | Professor |
Physicist | |
Author | |
Education | The City College of New York |
Cornell University | |
Books | Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum |
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum | |
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics | |
The Black Hole War | |
The Cosmic Landscape | |
An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe | |
The Theoretical Minimum | |
Official site | profiles.stanford.edu |
Thesi | Quantum mechanical approach to strong interactions (1965) |
Alma mater | City College of New York |
BS | |
Cornell University | |
Doctor student | Eduardo Fradkin; Douglas Stanford |
Eduardo Fradkin | |
Barak Kol | |
Douglas Stanford | |
Doctor advisor | Peter A. Carruthers |
Notable student | Bharat Ratra |
Douglas Stanford | |
Lisa Dyson | |
Eduardo Fradkin | |
Academic advisor | Peter A. Carruthers |
Awards | Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology |
Nationality | American |
Field | Physics, mathematics |
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ID | 456989 |
Leonard Susskind Life story
Leonard Susskind is an American physicist, who is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology.