Joseph Polchinski
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Hawthorne
- Educated at
- California Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyCanyon del Oro High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics🏆 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics🏆 Physics Frontiers Prize🏆 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Stanley Mandelstam
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Robert Graham Leigh📖 Mariana Graña
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Trending topics shown first"D-branes provide a simple description of various nonperturbative objects required by string duality, and give new insights into the quantum mechanics of black holes and the nature of spacetime at the …"
"On notable classmate was Dan Friedan. Friedan stunned me, and I think everyone else, at his Ph.D. seminar, when he showed that Einstein's equation, the basic equation of general relativity, could be i…"
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1954
Born
Birth2018
Died
Death
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