Hampshire College (B.A.) Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D)
Awards
Majorana Prize (2007) Klopsteg Memorial Award (2009) Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics Cosmology
Institutions
Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo
Doctoral advisor
Sidney Coleman Stanley Deser
Lee Smolin (/ˈsmoʊlɪn/; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at 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 as a viable scientific theory. 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.[2]
^"The Institute for Advanced Study. Annual Report 1979/80", p. 58
^Smolin's faculty page Archived 2008-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, Perimeter Institute.
LeeSmolin (/ˈsmoʊlɪn/; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an...
website. The Smolin–Susskind debate refers to the series of intense postings in 2004 between LeeSmolin and Susskind, concerning Smolin's argument that...
Smolin, American law professor Ivan Smolin (fl. 1920), commander of the Soviet 21st Rifle Division John A. Smolin (b. 1967), American physicist Lee Smolin...
Science, and What Comes Next is a 2006 book by the theoretical physicist LeeSmolin about the problems with string theory. The book strongly criticizes string...
awarding the tenured professorships. For example, according to physicist LeeSmolin, "...it is practically career suicide for a young theoretical physicist...
selection, also called the fecund universes, is a hypothesis proposed by LeeSmolin intended as a scientific alternative to the anthropic principle. It addresses...
physics, specifically Yang–Mills theory. Shortly after, Ted Jacobson and LeeSmolin realized that the formal equation of quantum gravity, called the Wheeler–DeWitt...
perturbations of this fixed one. In his book The Trouble With Physics, physicist LeeSmolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics claims that this is...
and quantum mechanics. One solution to the problem of time proposed by LeeSmolin is that there exists a "thick present" of events, in which two events...
theoretical physicist LeeSmolin. The book was initially published on January 1, 1997 by Oxford University Press. In the book, Smolin details his fecund...
the Universe is a 2013 book by the American theoretical physicist LeeSmolin. Smolin argues for what he calls a revolutionary view that time is real, in...
position of this book on the bestseller lists makes sense. According to LeeSmolin: Penrose is uniquely honest in mentioning the weak points and gaps in...
anthropic controversy as a segue to LeeSmolin's theory of cosmological natural selection. Leonard Susskind and LeeSmolin debate the anthropic principle....
since been applied to the theory of quantum gravity by Carlo Rovelli, LeeSmolin, Jorge Pullin, Rodolfo Gambini and others. Spin networks can also be used...
landscape in evolutionary biology. It was first applied to cosmology by LeeSmolin in his book The Life of the Cosmos (1997), and was first used in the context...
journalist George Johnson regarding the controversy caused by the books of LeeSmolin (The Trouble with Physics) and Woit (Not Even Wrong). The meeting was...
apart from the properties just mentioned, we know absolutely nothing. — LeeSmolin (2007), The Trouble with Physics, p. 16 Exotic matter is a concept of...
metaphysics and scientific naturalism by the American theoretical physicist LeeSmolin and the Brazilian philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger. The authors argue...
York Times reported that the physicists David Gross, Carlo Rovelli, and LeeSmolin considered the Bogdanoff papers nonsensical. Nobel laureate Georges Charpak...
theoretical physicist LeeSmolin. The book was initially published on May 30, 2001 by Basic Books as a part of the Science Masters series. Smolin discusses three...
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interpretation of this state remains obscure. In 1988–90, Carlo Rovelli and LeeSmolin obtained an explicit basis of states of quantum geometry, which turned...
concludes that supermassive black holes are the largest contributor. LeeSmolin goes further: "It has long been known that gravity is important for keeping...
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe – LeeSmolin The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics...
Modern proponents of one or more of the multiverse hypotheses include LeeSmolin, Don Page, Brian Greene, Max Tegmark, Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Michio...
1988, Rovelli, LeeSmolin and Abhay Ashtekar introduced a theory of quantum gravity called loop quantum gravity. In 1995, Rovelli and Smolin obtained a basis...
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