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Leonard
Susskind
LEONARD SUSSKIND has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics
at Stanford University since 1978. He is a member of the National Academy
of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient
of numerous prizes including the science writing prize of the American
Institute of Physics for my Scientific American article on black holes.
His contributions to physics include the discovery of string theory,
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 baryogenisis 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 cosmology, the idea of a string theory
"landscape".
HDr. Susskind is the author of The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory
and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, and The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics. He has written numerous articles
for the non-specialist including an award winning article on black
holes in the Scientific
American,
a recent rather long "cover story" article on the "Anthropic
Landscape of String theory" in the New Scientist and
an article on the status of String theory in Physics World.
Further
reading on Edge:
The
Landscape: A Talk with Leonard Susskind [12.4.03]
Smolin
vs. Susskind: The Anthropic Principle [8.18.04]
Beyond
Edge:
Leonard
Susskind Home Page
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