Joseph Polchinski
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physicist working on string theory (1954–2018)
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- Works
- 6
Top works
- String Theory, Volume 1
- Memories of a Theoretical Physicist
- String Theory
- String Theory, Vol. 1 (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
- String Theory, Vol. 2 (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
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- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,438x
- Naturalistic inquiry
· 1985 · cited 34,715x
- When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM
· 2019 · cited 21,432x
- CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP
· 1985 · cited 19,717x
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Quotes
- “D-branes provide a simple description of various nonperturbative objects required by string duality, and give new insights into the quantum mechanics of black holes and the nature of spacetime at the shortest distances. ... D-branes are extended objects, topological defects in a sense, defined by the property that strings can end on them.”
- “In the open string the gauge charges are carried by the Chan-Paton degrees of freedom at the endpoints. In the closed string the charges are carried by fields that move along the string.”
- “In all there are four arguments here for the multiverse: the failure of conventional methods for understanding why the cosmological constant is not large, the success of the environmental theories for doing so, the successful prediction of the nonzero cosmological constant, and the string landscape.”
- “On notable classmate was Dan Friedan. Friedan stunned me, and I think everyone else, at his Ph.D. seminar, when he showed that Einstein's equation, the basic equation of general relativity, could be interpreted in terms of one of the basic objects in QFT, the β function that governs the energy scale. I did not see what this could possibly mean, but a few years later it showed up as one of the key ideas in string theory.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gerard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- White Plains
- Place of death
- Santa Barbara
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Stanley Mandelstam
- Student of
- Stanley Mandelstam
- Field of work
- superstring theory
- Official website
- www.kitp.ucsb.edu/joep
- Image
- Joseph Polchinski.jpg
- Residence
- White Plains
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- date of birth
- 1954-05-16
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Joseph Polchinski
- date of death
- 2018-02-02
- Commons category
- Joseph Polchinski
- manner of death
- natural causes
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