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Leonard Susskind
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American physicist
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Leonard Susskind is an American physicist, non-fiction writer, and university teacher. Born in New York City, he holds citizenship in the United States and has worked at Stanford University, Leiden University, Tel Aviv University, and Yeshiva University. His academic career includes serving as a director and working in the fields of physics, cosmology, and string theory. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Susskind received his education at City College of New York and Cornell University, where his doctoral advisor was Peter A. Carruthers. He has authored several works, including *General Relativity*, *Special Relativity and Classical Field theory*, *An Introduction to Black Holes*, and *What Are You Optimistic About?*. His contributions to science have been recognized with the Sakurai Prize, the Pomeranchuk Prize, and the ICTP Dirac Medal.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 16 June 1940
- Works
- 10
Top works
- What Are You Optimistic About?
- Elektrodynamik und Relativität
- Special Relativity and Classical Field theory
- General Relativity
- An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,242
- Total plays
- 4,672
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Leonard Susskind (born 1940) is the Felix Bloch professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, whose research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is one of the founders of string theory. (from wikipedia). <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Leonard+Susskind">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research
· 1985 · cited 35,644x
- 2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
· 2016 · cited 12,598x
- The Behavioral Consequences of Service Quality
· 1996 · cited 7,535x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,658x
- Finding Groups in Data
· 1990 · cited 6,070x
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Quotes
- “The standard SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1) theory of strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions appears to correctly describe physics down to the smallest distance scales yet probed.”
- “(Jokingly) Sex in ten dimensions is impossible... topologically.”
- “The problem with general relativity is that the principles are pretty simple and the computations are always ugly.”
- “A straight line is a special case of a curve. It's a curve which is uncurved.”
- “Elegance requires that the number of defining equations be small. Five is better than ten, and one is better than five. On this score, one might facetiously say that String Theory is the ultimate epitome of elegance. With all the years that String Theory has been studied, no one has found even a single defining equation! The number at present count is zero. We know neither what the fundamental equations of the theory are nor even if it has any.”
- “My physics has been extremely mainstream, ... It's not true that I'm some sort of a [radical thinker], not at all.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1940-06-16 ) June 16, 1940 (age 85) , New York City , U.S.
- Alma mater
- City College of New York ( BS ) , Cornell University ( PhD )
- Awards
- Dirac Medal (2023), Oskar Klein medal (2018), Pomeranchuk Prize (2008) , Science Writing Award (1998) , Sakurai Prize (1998) , Boris Pregel Award (1975)
- Fields
- Physics , mathematics
- Institutions
- Yeshiva University , Tel Aviv University , Stanford University , Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics , Korea Institute for Advanced Study , Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Thesis
- Quantum mechanical approach to strong interactions (1965)
- Doctoral advisor
- Peter A. Carruthers
- Doctoral students
- Eduardo Fradkin , Barak Kol , Douglas Stanford
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Leonard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Position held
- director
- Educated at
- Cornell University
- Employer
- Leiden University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- agnosticism
- Notable work
- string theory
- Doctoral advisor
- Peter A. Carruthers
- Field of work
- string theory
- Official website
- profiles.stanford.edu/leonard-susskind
- Image
- LeonardSusskindStanfordNov2013.jpg
- Work location
- Stanford
- Residence
- United States
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- date of birth
- 1946-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Leonard Susskind (/ˈsʌskɪnd/; born June 16, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests are string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. He was the first to give a precise string-theoretic interpretation of the holographic principle in 1995 and the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leonard Susskind” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.