Juan Martín Maldacena
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Juan Martín Maldacena 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.
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... spacetime as a concept leads to some … where the equations fail. This happens in the interiors of the black holes when spacetime somehow collapses ...
(quote at 0:19 of 4:18; 2017 Breakthrough Prize held on December 4, 2016 at in )
It has been a long-standing challege for to construct a theory of quantum gravity. String theory is the leading candidate for a quantum theory of gravity.
These of are very powerful. Let us recall the situation in flat space. If we have a massive in flat space then we can always boost to a .
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Giorgio ParisiAlso won Pomeranchuk Prize
Jim PeeblesAlso won Oskar Klein Medal
John Stewart BellAlso won Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Peter ShorAlso won ICTP Dirac Medal
Nima Arkani-HamedAlso won Sackler Prize for Physics
Fabiola GianottiAlso won Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental PhysicsAbout this person
Juan Martín Maldacena 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.
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