American theoretical physicist and string theorist (1954–2018)
Joseph Polchinski
Polchinski in 2004
Born
(1954-05-16)May 16, 1954
White Plains, New York, U.S.
Died
February 2, 2018(2018-02-02) (aged 63)
Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Alma mater
California Institute of Technology (BS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known for
Polchinski equation Polchinski's paradox D-branes[1] Black hole firewall Everett phone
Awards
Dannie Heineman Prize (2007) Dirac Medal (2008) Breakthrough Prize (2017)
Scientific career
Fields
Theoretical physics
Institutions
University of California, Santa Barbara
Doctoral advisor
Stanley Mandelstam
Doctoral students
Robert Leigh Iosif Bena
Joseph Gerard Polchinski Jr.[2] (/pəlˈtʃɪnski/; May 16, 1954 – February 2, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist and string theorist.[3][4]
^Polchinski, J. (1995). "Dirichlet branes and Ramond-Ramond charges." Physical Review D, 50(10), R6041–R6045.
^"JOSEPH GERARD POLCHINSKI". Physics History Network.
^Yang, Henry T. (2 February 2018). "Obituary: Professor Emeritus Joseph Polchinski". UC Santa Barbara.
^"Joe Polchinski (1954-2018): La teoría de cuerdas está de luto". La Ciencia de la Mula Francis (in European Spanish). 3 February 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
Joseph Gerard Polchinski Jr. (/pəlˈtʃɪnski/; May 16, 1954 – February 2, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Polchinski was...
and university administrator Joseph Planta (1744–1828), Swiss principal librarian of the British Museum JosephPolchinski, theoretical physicist and string...
non-perturbative objects were missing.[citation needed] In the 1990s, JosephPolchinski discovered that the theory requires higher-dimensional objects, called...
Innovation (NIKI). In 2017, Vafa, alongside Andrew Strominger and JosephPolchinski, jointly won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their...
the Bousso bound on the information content of the universe. With JosephPolchinski, Bousso proposed the string theory landscape as a solution to the...
context of the string landscape. The book was criticized by physicist JosephPolchinski and other string theorists. In his earlier book Three Roads to Quantum...
2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Cumrun Vafa and JosephPolchinski. In 2020, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Pasterski–Strominger–Zhiboedov...
hole firewall proposed in 2012 by Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, JosephPolchinski, and James Sully Search for "amps" on Wikipedia. ampere-second (As)...
Santa Barbara Physics Department. Former Permanent Members include JosephPolchinski and Physics Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek. Galileo Galilei Institute...
cosmological inflation. It was subsequently realized by string theorist JosephPolchinski that the expanding Universe could have stretched a "fundamental" string...
regardless of what type of object was sent to the past. Physicist JosephPolchinski considered a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard...
connections between black hole entropy and fluid surface tension. JosephPolchinski Robert Wald See List of loop quantum gravity researchers. Carlip,...
a different limit of a single underlying theory called M-theory. Polchinski, Joseph (1998). String Theory: Superstring Theory and Beyond. Vol. 2. Cambridge...
on flux compactifications (including work with Steve Giddings and JosephPolchinski), which can stabilize the extra dimensions of string theory. In collaboration...
Balthasar van der Pol – Netherlands (1889–1959) electrical engineer JosephPolchinski – United States (1954–2018) Hugh David Politzer – United States (born...
and Igor Tyutin 2008 Mitchell Feigenbaum 2007 Juan Maldacena and JosephPolchinski 2006 Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen...
different theories of strings were also related to M-theory. In 1995, JosephPolchinski discovered that the theory requires the inclusion of higher-dimensional...
physicists including Sean Carroll and string theorists JosephPolchinski and Luboš Motl. Polchinski's review states, "In the end, these [Smolin and others']...
theory and resulting resolution of some spacetime singularities (with JosephPolchinski and others). Other significant research contributions include the...
Nielsen Peter van Nieuwenhuizen David Olive Hirosi Ooguri Burt Ovrut JosephPolchinski Alexander Polyakov Arvind Rajaraman Lisa Randall Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi...
who also made important contributions to the success of LIGO. 2017 JosephPolchinski For transformative advances in quantum field theory, string theory...
1953) Berthold-Georg Englert (born 1953) George M. Fuller (born 1953) JosephPolchinski (1954–2018) Ashton Baldwin Carter (1954–2022) Alexandre Bouzdine (born...
more compelling arguments (detailed below) that monopoles do exist. JosephPolchinski, a string theorist, described the existence of monopoles as "one of...
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