Joseph Gerard Polchinski Jr. (/pəlˈtʃɪnski/; May 16, 1954 – February 2, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Polchinski was...

Museum Joseph Polchinski, theoretical physicist and string theorist Joe Root, a 19th-century American naturalist from Erie, Pennsylvania Joseph Glidden...

University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014 under the supervision of Joseph Polchinski. His thesis titled The Black Hole Firewall and Top-Down Constructions...

was proposed in 2012 by physicists Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski, and James Sully as a possible solution to an apparent inconsistency...

non-perturbative objects were missing.[citation needed] In the 1990s, Joseph Polchinski discovered that the theory requires higher-dimensional objects, called...

the Bousso bound on the information content of the universe. With Joseph Polchinski, Bousso proposed the string theory landscape as a solution to the...

Innovation (NIKI). In 2017, Vafa, alongside Andrew Strominger and Joseph Polchinski, jointly won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their...

context of the string landscape. The book was criticized by physicist Joseph Polchinski and other string theorists. In his earlier book Three Roads to Quantum...

particle Brane D-brane Polchinski, Joseph Gerard (2004). String theory. Vol. 1: An introduction to the bosonic string / Joseph Polchinski (Reprint ed.). Cambridge:...

on flux compactifications (including work with Steve Giddings and Joseph Polchinski), which can stabilize the extra dimensions of string theory. In collaboration...

regardless of what type of object was sent to the past. Physicist Joseph Polchinski considered a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard...

object sent through the wormhole.: 509  By way of response, physicist Joseph Polchinski wrote them a letter arguing that one could avoid the issue of free...

2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Cumrun Vafa and Joseph Polchinski. In 2020, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Pasterski–Strominger–Zhiboedov...

James Hartle, Alan Heeger, Gary Horowitz, Joseph Incandela, Walter Kohn, James Langer, Joseph Polchinski, Douglas Scalapino, Boris Shraiman, and Michael...

discovery of D-branes, usually attributed to Jin Dai, Robert Leigh and Joseph Polchinski, who discovered them independently, also in 1989. In 2009, Hořava...

discovered by Jin Dai, Robert Leigh, and Joseph Polchinski, and independently by Petr Hořava, in 1989. In 1995, Polchinski identified D-branes with black p-brane...

Garrick Ohlsson, classical pianist Nicholas Orzio, photographer(b) Joseph Polchinski, theoretical physicist and string theorist (b) Scott Reiniger, actor...

hole firewall proposed in 2012 by Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski, and James Sully Search for "amps" on Wikipedia. ampere-second (As)...

connections between black hole entropy and fluid surface tension. Joseph Polchinski Robert Wald See List of loop quantum gravity researchers. Carlip,...

cosmological inflation. It was subsequently realized by string theorist Joseph Polchinski that the expanding Universe could have stretched a "fundamental" string...

Variance hosted a number of guest bloggers, including string theorist Joseph Polchinski reviewing Lee Smolin's book The Trouble With Physics. Physics World...

Balthasar van der Pol – Netherlands (1889–1959) electrical engineer Joseph Polchinski – United States (1954–2018) Hugh David Politzer – United States (born...

paradox of black holes, which was heightened by the firewall paradox of Joseph Polchinski. During this time, he worked with Edward Witten on fermionic localization...

Santa Barbara Physics Department. Former Permanent Members include Joseph Polchinski and Physics Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek. Institute for Theoretical...

physicists including Sean Carroll and string theorists Joseph Polchinski and Luboš Motl. Polchinski's review states, "In the end, these [Smolin and others']...

different theories of strings were also related to M-theory. In 1995, Joseph Polchinski discovered that the theory requires the inclusion of higher-dimensional...

a rosary service on October 7, 1995 for which O'Connor appointed Joseph Polchinski as one of the servers. When O'Connor reached the retirement age for...

for his work on finite groups Joseph Rhodes Jr. (1969, History) Pennsylvanian politician and activist Joseph Polchinski (1975) known for D-branes in string...

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". Breakthrough Prize. "Joseph Polchinski - University of California, Santa Barbara and Kavli Institute for...

who also made important contributions to the success of LIGO. 2017 Joseph Polchinski For transformative advances in quantum field theory, string theory...