Leonard
Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford
University, and Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His
research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum
statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an
associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical
Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced
Study.
Professor Susskind received
his PhD from Cornell University in 1965 and has taught at Stanford since 1979.
In 1997, Susskind was awarded the J.J. Sakurai Prize for his
"pioneering contributions to hadronic string models,
lattice gauge theories, quantum chromodynamics, and dynamical
symmetry breaking."
Susskind
is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory, having, with
Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, independently introduced the idea that
particles could in fact be states of excitation of a relativistic string.
He was the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in
2003.
According
to colleagues, Professor Susskind's hallmark has been the application of
"brilliant imagination and originality to the theoretical study of the
nature of the elementary particles and forces that make up the physical
world."
He
is the author of two popular books on modern physics: The Cosmic
Landscape, and the bestseller The Black Hole War, which
describes how, over the course of 25 years, Susskind ultimately convinced
Stephen Hawking that Hawking’s theory of Black Hole entropy was incorrect.
His
current work on black hole firewalls is discussed in this New York Times article. He recently gave a lecture on the topic at the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics (UCSB), and co-authored a paper with Juan
Maldacena that proposes Einstein-Rosen bridges as an alternative to
black hole firewalls.
Professor
Susskind teaches a very popular series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses
in modern physics called The Theoretical Minimum.
This website presents those courses. He is writing a series of
companion books to the courses also called The Theorectical
Minimum.
(Sources
include Wikipedia. Photo credit: Linda Cicero / Stanford News Service)




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