Juan Maldacena
Juan MartÃn Maldacena (born 10 September 1968) is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has made significant contributions to the foundations of string theory and quantum gravity. His most famous discovery is the AdS/CFT correspondence, a realization of the holographic principle in string theory.
Juan Maldacena | |
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| Born | 10 September 1968 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentine, American, Italian |
| Education | Balseiro Institute (BS) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | AdS/CFT correspondence ER = EPR ABJM superconformal field theory |
| Awards | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship Sackler Prize MacArthur Fellowship Xanthopoulos Pius XI Medal Dirac Medal Pomeranchuk Prize Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Lorentz Medal Albert Einstein Medal St. Albert Award Galileo Galilei Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Thesis | Black Holes in String Theory (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Curtis Callan |
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