Michael Green (physicist)

Michael Boris Green ( May 22nd 1946) is a British physicist and a pioneer of string theory.

Life

Michael Green in 1970 received his doctorate at the University of Cambridge. He was from 1978 to 1993 lecturer at Queen Mary College, University of London, in 1993 he became the John Humphrey Plummer appointed professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge University. Since November 2009 he has held the successor Stephen Hawking the Luca -sian chair of mathematics.

By John Black he developed in the early 1980s, the superstring theory. Your publication from 1984 on the cancellation of anomalies in superstring theories with certain symmetry groups led to the first superstring revolution. The condition provided strong limitations for the design based on Guts SuperString theories.

Writings (selection )

• Crossing symmetry and duality in strong interactions. University of Cambridge, 1970. (Dissertation)
• Unification of forces and particles in superstring theory, Nature, vol 314, 1985, p 409
• Superstrings, Scientific American, September 1986 Online
• With John Schwarz and Edward Witten: Superstring theory. Cambridge University Press, 2 volumes, 1987. 1 Introduction. Cambridge [ua ], ISBN 0-521-32384-3, ISBN 0-521-35752-7.
• 2 Loop Amplitudes, anomalies and phenomenology. Cambridge [ua ], ISBN 0-521-32999- X, ISBN 0-521-35753-5.

Awards

• Maxwell Medal, Institute of Physics, UK ( 1987)
• William Hopkins Prize, Cambridge Philosophical Society (1987 )
• Dirac Medal ( ICTP ), the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (1989 )
• Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Physical Society ( 2002)
• Dirac Medal ( IOP), Institute of Physics, UK ( 2004)
• Physics Frontiers Prize and Fundamental Physics Prize (2014)