Lawrence M. Krauss

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5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,528x

2. Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context

   · 2014 · cited 25,200x

3. <i>Planck</i> 2018 results

   · 2020 · cited 12,766x

4. Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

   · 2015 · cited 11,565x

5. Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding

   · 2000 · cited 11,495x

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Quotes

• “My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked to apologize for that. It is interesting to me that people ask 'what's the point of doing that if it's not useful?' But they never ask that, or do they very rarely ask that about art or literature or music. Those things are not gonna produce a better toaster.”
• “There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.”
• “Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.”
• “If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.”
• “Science simply forces us to revise what is sensible to accommodate the universe, rather than vice versa.”
• “The other thing people don't realise about science which differentiates it from religion is that, the most exciting thing about being a scientist is not knowing and being wrong. Because that means there is a lot left to learn.”

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Key facts

Born

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss , ( 1954-05-27 ) May 27, 1954 (age 72) , New York City, U.S.

Alma mater

Carleton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Known for

Dark energy Zero-energy states

Spouses

Katherine Kelley ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2012 ) ​ Nancy Dahl ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2014 ) ​

Awards

Andrew Gemant Award (2001) Lilienfeld Prize (2001) Science Writing Award (2002) Oersted Medal (2004) Richard Dawkins Award (2016)

Fields

Theoretical physics Cosmology

Institutions

Arizona State University Australian National University New College of the Humanities Yale University Case Western Reserve University Harvard University

Thesis

Gravitation and Phase Transitions in the Early Universe (1982)

Doctoral advisor

Roscoe Giles

Website

www .lawrencemkrauss .com

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Wikidata facts

Official website

krauss.faculty.asu.edu

Image

Lawrence M. Krauss in 2009.jpg

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