Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind · Science & Medicine
Physicist; string theory and the holographic principle
1940, New York City, USA
United States (New York · Stanford, California)
Leonard Susskind is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; string theory and the holographic principle
Susskind, born in the Bronx to a working-class Jewish family and once a plumber, became a founder of string theory and proposed the holographic principle — the idea that the information contained in a region of space can be encoded on its boundary. It is a guiding concept of modern theoretical physics and quantum gravity.
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Physicist; string theory and the holographic principle
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