Andrew Strominger

Andrew Eben Strominger ( born July 30, 1955 in Cambridge, England) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist.

Strominger is the son of Jack L. Strominger, Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard. He studied at Harvard University (Bachelor 1977) and his PhD in 1982 at Roman Jackiw at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a professor at Harvard University.

His scientific contributions include work with Cumrun Vafa for microscopic cause ( in the context of string theory ) the entropy of black holes (which was calculated thermodynamically by Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein ), a work for the compactification of superstrings with Calabi -Yau manifolds ( Philip Candelas, Gary Horowitz and Edward Witten), work on the AdS / CFT correspondence ( a variation of the AdS / CFT correspondence ), S- branes, OM- theory (Open membranes, with Nathan Seiberg and Shiraz Minwalla ), noncommutative solitons ( with Shiraz Minwalla and Rajesh Gopakumar ), Mirror symmetry and T- duality ( with Eric Zaslow and Shing -Tung Yau ), and string theory.

With Horowitz, he was also one of those who evidence brane solutions of string theory found in the early 1990s.

For 2014, Strominger the Physics Frontiers Prize was awarded. In 2008 he received the Eisenbud Prize.