Leonard Susskind is a theoretical physics professor at Stanford University who is widely considered to be one of the most entertaining mavericks in the field of string theory.

Background

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Susskind was born in New York City and now resides in Palo Alto, California. He is married to Anne Warren and has four children, including Yve Susskind, a Ph.D. and advocate of youth empowerment on Vashon Island, Washington.

He graduated with a B.S. in Physics in 1962, from the City College of New York, then went on to get his Ph.D. in 1965 from Cornell University.

Career

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He has been a Professor of Physics at Stanford University since 1979.

Susskind is the author of a recent book "The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design". The book has received mixed reviews and has not sold as well as similar books by Brian Greene and Lisa Randall.

Contributions to physics

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His contributions to physics include:

• the discovery that string theory is based on one-dimensional objects
• the theory of quark confinement
• the development of Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory
• the theory of scaling violations in deep inelastic electroproduction
• the theory of symmetry breaking sometimes known as "technicolor theory"
• the first theories of cosmological baryogenesis apart from Sakharov's work which was unknown in the West
• the string theory of black hole entropy
• the principle of "black hole complementarity"
• the holographic principle, the matrix description of M-theory
• the introduction of holographic entropy bounds in physical cosmology
• and the idea of an anthropic string theory landscape.

External links

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• Stanford University Homepage
• The Edge Article with Leonard Susskind

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