Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin · Science & Medicine
Physicist; loop quantum gravity
1955, New York City, United States
United States · Canada
Lee Smolin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; loop quantum gravity
Smolin, from a Jewish family, is an American theoretical physicist and a founding faculty member of the Perimeter Institute in Canada. He is a leading developer of loop quantum gravity, a major approach to unifying general relativity with quantum mechanics, and proposed the idea of cosmological natural selection. His popular books, such as The Trouble with Physics, have influenced debate over the direction of fundamental physics.
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Physicist; loop quantum gravity
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