Donald Marolf is a theoretical physicist, a Professor of Physics, and former head of the physics department at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...
.
Biography
Marolf gained his Ph.D. from
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
in 1992, under
Bryce DeWitt
Bryce Seligman DeWitt (January 8, 1923 – September 23, 2004), was an American theoretical physicist noted for his work in gravitation and quantum field theory.
Life
He was born Carl Bryce Seligman, but he and his three brothers, including ...
with a thesis on '' Green's Bracket Algebras and Their Quantization''.
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/ref> His undergraduate-degree is from William Jewell College
William Jewell College is a private liberal arts college in Liberty, Missouri. It was founded in 1849 by members of the Missouri Baptist Convention and endowed with $10,000 by William Jewell. It was associated with the Missouri Baptist Conventi ...
, in 1987.
He is an expert on thermodynamics of black holes, gravitational aspects in string theory, classical- and quantum-gravity. In the past he has worked on the canonical approach to quantum-gravity, lower-dimensional models of quantum-gravity, issues related to quantization of diffeomorphism-invariant theories, and a number of other topics. He has published 113 scientific papers through 2007.
See also
* Firewall
Firewall may refer to:
* Firewall (computing), a technological barrier designed to prevent unauthorized or unwanted communications between computer networks or hosts
* Firewall (construction), a barrier inside a building, designed to limit the spre ...
References
External links
Official web page at UCSBOnline lecture
"Entropy Bounds: Can We Live Without Them? Dr. Don Marolf, UCSB"
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21st-century American physicists
Living people
University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni
William Jewell College alumni
Theoretical physicists
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Physical Society