Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind 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.
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- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Cornell UniversityCity College of New York
- Awards
- 🏆 Messenger Lectures🏆 ICTP Dirac Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Peter A. Carruthers
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Bharat Ratra📖 Eduardo H. Fradkin📖 Lisa Dyson
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1940
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