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Stephen Shenker

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Stephen Shenker · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; string theory and matrix models

When

1953, Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Stephen Shenker is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; string theory and matrix models

How & why

An American theoretical physicist and former director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Shenker works on the non-perturbative structure of string theory and its links to quantum gravity and chaos. His work on matrix models and, more recently, on quantum chaos and black holes has been widely influential. He is documented among Jewish figures in physics.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

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Physicist; string theory and matrix models

1953

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics