Gary T. Horowitz (born April 14, 1955 in
Washington, D.C.) is an American theoretical physicist who works on
string theory
In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interac ...
and
quantum gravity
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.
Biography
Horowitz studied at
Princeton University (Bachelor 1976) and obtained his Ph.D. in 1979 at the
University of Chicago with
Robert Geroch
Robert Geroch (born 1 June 1942 in Akron, Ohio) is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked prominently on general relativity and mathematical physics and has promoted the use of category theo ...
. Subsequently, he was a post-doc at the
University of California, Santa Barbara and
Oxford University (as a NATO Fellow). In 1981-1983 he worked as an Einstein Fellow at the
Institute for Advanced Study. He became an Assistant Professor in 1983, Associate Professor in 1986, and finally Professor in 1990 at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Horowitz investigates gravitational phenomena, such as black holes, in string theory. In the 1990s, he worked with, among others,
Andrew Strominger and
Joseph Polchinski showing that string theory provides a description of the quantum microstates of certain black holes (following earlier work of Strominger and
Cumrun Vafa).
In 1985 Horowitz published an influential paper with
Philip Candelas,
Andrew Strominger and
Edward Witten on the compactification of superstrings in Calabi-Yau spaces. In the early 1990s, Horowitz and Strominger found black
brane solutions in string theory. Horowitz also works on the
AdS/CFT correspondence and (together with Sean Hartnoll and Chris Herzog) discovered holographic
superconductors.
In 1982 Horowitz and M. Perry won first prize in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition. From 1985 to 1989 he was a Sloan Fellow. In 1993 he was awarded the Xanthopoulos Prize. He has been a
Fellow of the American Physical Society
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since 2001,
[ ] Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
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since 2010, and
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2013.
Selected papers
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References
External links
UCSB website
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1955 births
Living people
21st-century American physicists
American string theorists
Princeton University alumni
University of Chicago alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences