Steven Gubser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Steven Gubser

American physicist

Date of Birth: 04-May-1972

Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Date of Death: 03-Aug-2019

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Steven Gubser

  • Steven Scott Gubser (May 4, 1972 – August 3, 2019) was a professor of physics at Princeton University.
  • His research focused on theoretical particle physics, especially string theory, and the AdS/CFT correspondence.
  • He was a widely cited scholar in these and other related areas.Gubser did foundational work in the AdS/CFT correspondence as a graduate student.
  • In particular, his 1998 paper Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory with his advisor Igor Klebanov and another Princeton physics professor Alexander Markovich Polyakov, made a precise statement of the AdS/CFT duality.
  • It is one of the all-time top cited papers in theoretical high-energy physics, and is commonly known, along with Edward Witten's 1998 work Anti De Sitter Space And Holography, as the GKPW dictionary.
  • After receiving a Ph.D.
  • in 1998 from Princeton, Gubser became a Junior Fellow at Harvard University before taking a position as an assistant professor at Princeton.
  • In 2001, he moved to the California Institute of Technology but returned to Princeton in 2002.
  • Gubser's later works concern various aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence, including its applications in quantum chromodynamics and condensed matter physics.
  • In 2016 he and collaborators proposed a p-adic version of AdS/CFT correspondence whose bulk geometry is a tree graph.
  • As a high school student in 1989, Gubser was the first American to win the International Physics Olympiad.
  • He was also a silver medalist at the 1990 International Chemistry Olympiad.
  • He graduated from Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
  • He graduated as the valedictorian of the class of 1994 from Princeton University.
  • For his senior thesis he was awarded the LeRoy Apker Award of the American Physical Society, the highest distinction for undergraduate research.
  • Gubser died in a rock climbing accident in Chamonix, France on August 3, 2019.

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