Cosmological natural selection
| Lee Smolin | |
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Lee Smolin at Harvard
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| Born |
June 6, 1955 New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Physics Cosmology |
| Institutions |
Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo |
| Alma mater |
Hampshire College (B.A., 1975) Harvard University (A.M., 1978; Ph.D, 1979) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Sidney Coleman Stanley Deser |
| Notable awards | Majorana Prize (2007) Klopsteg Memorial Award (2009) Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013) |
Lee Smolin (/ˈsmoʊlɪn/; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto.
Smolin is best known for his 2006 book The Trouble with Physics, a popular science book which became famous by openly criticizing string theory as a viable scientific theory. His research interests include, Quantum Gravity, Loop quantum gravity, cosmology, elementary particle theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and theoretical biology.
Smolin was born in New York City. His brother, David M. Smolin, became a professor in the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama.
Smolin dropped out of Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was educated at Hampshire College. He received his Ph.D in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 1979. He held postdoctoral research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara and the University of Chicago, before becoming a faculty member at Yale, Syracuse and Pennsylvania State Universities. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1995 and a visiting professor at Imperial College London (1999-2001) before becoming one of the founding faculty members at the Perimeter Institute in 2001.
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