Juan MartÃn Maldacena
Juan Martín Maldacena ( born September 10, 1968 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine theoretical physicist and string theorist.
Maldacena studied from 1985 to 1988 physics at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and at the Instituto Balseiro from the Universidad de Cuyo in Bariloche, where he earned a master's degree ( Licenciatura ) made in 1991. In 1992 he went to Princeton University, where in 1993 he achieved a Master of Arts in 1996 and received his PhD in Curtis Callan. After that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University. From 1997 to 2001 he was a professor at Harvard University (initially Visiting Associate Professor, 1998 Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor, from 1999 professor ) and since then he has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
His most important scientific contribution is the AdS / CFT correspondence, a conjecture about the equivalence of string theory in an anti - de Sitter space and a conformal field theory which is defined on the boundary of this space. This is the best so far explicit formulation of the holographic principle.
In 2007 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 2008, the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ) and 2012 the Pomeranchuk Prize. In 1999 he was a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation. In 2012 he was awarded the Fundamental Physics Prize. Since 2013 Maldacena is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
According XStructure is Maldacenas publication The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity the most frequently cited article on the preprintserver ArXiv.