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Shamit Kachru

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theoretical physicist, a professor of physics at Stanford University, the Wells Family Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Stanford Physics Department Chair

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  • Mind-Bending Physics of String Theory
  • Strings, Branes and Gravity (Tasi 1999)
  • Strings, Branes and Gravity

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5 total works indexed

  1. de Sitter vacua in string theory

    · 2003 · cited 2,298x

  2. Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications

    · 2002 · cited 1,300x

  3. Towards inflation in string theory

    · 2003 · cited 976x

  4. Observational signatures and non-Gaussianities of general single-field inflation

    · 2007 · cited 790x

  5. Flux compactification

    · 2007 · cited 671x

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human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Champaign
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Edward Witten
Work location
Stanford
Residence
United States
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date of birth
1970-01-01
start of work period
1992-01-01
ethnic group
Kashmiri people
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