Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. Smolin's 2006 book The Trouble with Physics criticized string theory's viability. He has made contributions to quantum gravity theory, in particular the approach known as loop quantum gravity. He advocates that the two primary approaches to quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity and string theory, can be reconciled as different aspects of the same underlying theory. He also advocates an alternative view on space and time that he calls temporal naturalism. His research interests also include cosmology, elementary particle theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and theoretical biology.
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- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityUniversity of CincinnatiHampshire CollegeWalnut Hills High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Majorana Prize🏆 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Sidney Coleman🎓 Stanley Deser
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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1955
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