Willy Fischler (born 1949 in

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

, Belgium) is a theoretical physicist. He is the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is affiliated with the Weinberg theory group. He is also a certified Flight Paramedic (

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) and was a Licensed Paramedic with Marble Falls Area EMS and a volunteer EMT with the Westlake Fire Department. His contributions to physics include: * Early computation of the force between heavy quarks. * The DFSZ (Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnisky) model, as a solution to the

strong CP problem The strong CP problem is a puzzling question in particle physics: Why does quantum chromodynamics (QCD) seem to preserve CP-symmetry? In particle physics, CP stands for the combination of charge conjugation symmetry (C) and parity symmetry (P) ...

. * The cosmological effects of the invisible axion (with

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) and its role as a candidate for dark matter. * Pioneering work (with

and Mark Srednicki) on the use of

supersymmetry In a supersymmetric theory the equations for force and the equations for matter are identical. In theoretical and mathematical physics, any theory with this property has the principle of supersymmetry (SUSY). Dozens of supersymmetric theories e ...

to solve outstanding problems in the

standard model The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetism, electromagnetic, weak interaction, weak and strong interactions - excluding gravity) in the universe and classifying a ...

of particle physics. * The first formulation of what became known as the "moduli problem in cosmology" (with G.D. Coughlan,

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, Stuart Raby and Graham Ross). * The Fischler-Susskind mechanism in

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 ...

(with Leonard Susskind). * The original formulation of the

holographic entropy bound The holographic principle is an axiom in string theories and a supposed property of quantum gravity that states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a lower-dimensional boundary to the region — such as a l ...

in the context of cosmology (with Leonard Susskind). * The discovery of M(atrix) theory, or BFSS Matrix Theory. M(atrix) theory is an example of a gauge/gravity duality (with Tom Banks, Steve Shenker and Leonard Susskind). * Black Hole production in colliders (with Tom Banks). Willy Fischler attending patient

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