Alexander Polyakov
Alexander Polyakov · Science & Medicine
Theoretical physicist; major contributions to quantum field theory and string theory
1945, Moscow, Soviet Union
Russia · United States
Alexander Polyakov is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Theoretical physicist; major contributions to quantum field theory and string theory
Polyakov, a Russian-American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent, is one of the architects of modern quantum field theory and string theory. He helped introduce instantons and confinement ideas, formulated the Polyakov action for the string, and pioneered the conformal bootstrap and gauge/gravity duality. He worked at the Landau Institute in Moscow before joining Princeton in 1989.
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Theoretical physicist; major contributions to quantum field theory and string theory
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