Steven S. Gubser | |
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Born |
4 May 1972 (age 44) Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Nationality | American |
Institutions | Princeton University |
Alma mater | Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
Doctoral advisor | Igor Klebanov |
Known for | AdS/CFT correspondence |
Steven Scott Gubser (born 4 May 1972) is a professor of physics at Princeton University. His research focuses on theoretical particle physics, especially string theory, and the AdS/CFT correspondence. He is a widely cited scholar in these and other related areas.
After receiving a Ph.D. in 1998 from Princeton, Gubser did postdoctoral research at Harvard University before taking a position as an assistant professor at Princeton. In 2001, he moved to the California Institute of Technology but returned again to Princeton in 2002.
As a high schooler, he was the first American to win the International Physics Olympiad, in 1989. He was also a silver medalist at the 1990 International Chemistry Olympiad. He graduated from Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, CO.