Paul Steinhardt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Paul Steinhardt

American cosmologist

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1952

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Profession: astronomer, physicist, university teacher, academic, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Paul Joseph Steinhardt (born December 25, 1952) is an American theoretical physicist whose principal research is in cosmology and condensed matter physics.
He is currently the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University where he is on the faculty of the Departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences.
Steinhardt is best known for his development of new theories of the origin, evolution and future of the universe.
He is also well known for his exploration of a new form of matter, known as quasicrystals.
He has written two popular books on these topics.
Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang (2007), co-authored with Neil Turok, describes the early struggles in challenging the widely accepted big bang theory and the subsequent development of the bouncing or cyclic theories of the universe, which are currently being explored and tested.
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter (2019) recounts the story of quasicrystals from his invention of the concept with his then-student Dov Levine, to his expedition to far eastern Russia to recover meteorite fragments containing natural quasicrystal grains formed billions of years ago.