Stephen Shenker
Stephen Shenker · Science & Medicine
Physicist; string theory and matrix models
1953, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
United States
Stephen Shenker is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; string theory and matrix models
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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Physicist; string theory and matrix models
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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