Residence U.S. Name Steven Gubser Nationality American | Known for AdS/CFT correspondence | |
Books The Little Book of String Theory Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Institutions Princeton University | ||
Steven Scott Gubser (born 4 May 1972) is a professor of physics at Princeton University. His research focuses on theoretical particle physics, especially string theory, and the AdS/CFT correspondence. He is a widely cited scholar in these and other related areas.
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After receiving a Ph.D. in 1998 from Princeton, Gubser did postdoctoral research at Harvard University before taking a position as an assistant professor at Princeton. In 2001, he moved to the California Institute of Technology but returned again to Princeton in 2002.
As a high schooler, he was the first American to win the International Physics Olympiad, in 1989. He was also a silver medalist at the 1990 International Chemistry Olympiad. He graduated from Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, CO.
Steven gubser the gauge string duality and qcd at finite temperature
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