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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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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Born: June 16, 1940
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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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Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Article text
He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sc
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