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Andrew Strominger is a theoretical physicist from the United States who works in string theory. He received his doctorate in 1982 from MIT under the supervision of Roman Jackiw. He is the Director of the Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature.
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Born | July 30, 1955 |
Birth place | United States |
Nationality | American |
Citizenship | USA |
Birth name | Andrew Eben Strominger |
Education | University of California, Berkeley, MIT |
Known for | Physics |
Occupation | Theoretical scientist |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Fields | Physics |
Notable students | Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski |
Andrew Strominger was born in July 30, 1955 in United States. His father Jack L. Strominger
is a professor and mother was a teacher, they encouraged him to full-fill his dreams.
Andrew Strominger completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard University in 1977. He completed a master’s degree at the University of California , Berkeley , and completed a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 under the direction of Roman Jackiw . After a time teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara , he was awarded a teaching position at Harvard in 1997.
Andrew Strominger is married and he has kids.
He has done research in the field of quantum gravity and string theory, including work on Calabi-Yau varieties, thermodynamics of black holes , and topological changes in string theory. He is also one of the creators of the CGHS model. Member of the Society of Fellows (in) , Andrew Strominger is the son of Jack L. Strominger.
His contributions to physics include:
In 2008, he received the Leonard Eisenbud Award for Mathematics and Physics, awarded by the American Mathematical Society (2008) , together with Hirosi Ooguri and Cumrun Vafa . He is also the recipient of the Dirac Award (2014), the Oskar Klein Medal (2014), the Basic Physics Prize (2014) and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2016).
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1955 | He was born on July 30, 1955 in United States. | |
1977 | He received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College. | |
1982 | He received a Ph.D. at MIT. | |
1997 | Joined Harvard as a professor. | |
2014 | He received many award and prizes, his total award number is over 200. |
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