# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-tye
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:07:46.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-tye"
name: "Henry Tye"
slug: "henry-tye"
description: "Sze-Hoi Henry Tye is a Chinese-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist most notable for proposing that relative brane motion could cause cosmic inflation as well as his work on superstring theory, brane cosmology and elementary particle physics. He had his primary and secondary school education in Hong Kong. Graduated from La Salle College. He received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Francis Low. He is the Horace White Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Cornell University and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2011 and was the Director of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study during 2011-2016."
tagline: "American astronomer"
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birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump