Steve Carlip, Date of Birth

Steve Carlip

American physicist

Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1953

Profession: professor, physicist, theoretical physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Steven Jonathan Carlip (born 1953) is an American professor of physics at the University of California, Davis.
He is known for his work on (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity, the quantum gravitational basis of black hole thermodynamics, and causal dynamical triangulations.
Carlip graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in physics in 1975.
In 1987, he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, with a Doctor of Philosophy under the direction of Bryce DeWitt.
After a post-doctoral period at Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, he has been teaching — since 1990 — at University of California, Davis. Carlip was one of the recipients of the Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in the year 1991.