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Brian Greene
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Brian Greene
At the launch of the World Science Festival, April 2008
Born
(1963-02-09) February 9, 1963 (age 50)
New York City, U.S.
Residence
United States
Nationality
USA
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Cornell University
Columbia University
Alma mater
Stuyvesant High School
Harvard University
Oxford University
Doctoral advisor
Graham G. Ross (Oxford University)
James Binney
Known for
String theory
The Elegant Universe
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely, relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point. He has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Hidden Reality, and a related PBS television special. Greene also appeared on The Big Bang Theory episode "The Herb Garden Germination".
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