(born 1947) is a Japanese
physicist
A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.
Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
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Independently of
Joël Scherk
Joël Scherk (; 27 May 1946 – 16 May 1980) was a French theoretical physicist who studied string theory and supergravity.
Work
Scherk studied in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). In 1969 he received his diploma (Thèse de troisièm ...
and
John H. Schwarz
John Henry Schwarz (; born November 22, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders of s ...
, he realized that
string theory describes, among other things, the force of
gravity
In physics, gravity () is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things with mass or energy. Gravity is, by far, the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, approximately 1038 times weaker than the stro ...
.
Yoneya has worked on the stringy extension of the
uncertainty principle
In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle (also known as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the accuracy with which the values for certain pairs of physic ...
for many years.
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"D-particles, D-instantons, and a space-time uncertainty principle in string theory."arXiv preprint hep-th/9707002 (1997).
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"Gravity from strings: personal reminiscence on early developments."arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0079 (2008).
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Living people
1947 births
People from Hokkaido
Japanese string theorists
Hokkaido University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
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