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Leonard Susskind

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Leonard Susskind (born June 16, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1940 1
Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1940-06-16 1
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Additional Source Leonard Susskind (Wikipedia)Scientific career section (edge: proposed-by, Susskind)
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  • Lead section (entity-description)
    Leonard Susskind (born June 16, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.
  • Infobox (birth-date)
    Born: June 16, 1940
  • Infobox (birth-year)
    Born: June 16, 1940
  • Proposed: String Theory, Scientific career section (edge: proposed-by, Susskind)
    Susskind was one of at least three physicists, alongside Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, who independently discovered during or around 1970 that Gabriele Veneziano's dual resonance model of strong interactions could be described by a quantum mechanical model of oscillating strings.
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