Joseph Gerard Polchinski Jr. (/pəlˈtʃɪnski/; May 16, 1954 – February 2, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Polchinski was...

and university administrator Joseph Planta (1744–1828), Swiss principal librarian of the British Museum Joseph Polchinski, theoretical physicist and string...

the Bousso bound on the information content of the universe. With Joseph Polchinski, Bousso proposed the string theory landscape as a solution to the...

hole firewall proposed in 2012 by Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski, and James Sully Search for "amps" on Wikipedia. ampere-second (As)...

was proposed in 2012 by physicists Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski, and James Sully as a possible solution to an apparent inconsistency...

non-perturbative objects were missing.[citation needed] In the 1990s, Joseph Polchinski discovered that the theory requires higher-dimensional objects, called...

Innovation (NIKI). In 2017, Vafa, alongside Andrew Strominger and Joseph Polchinski, jointly won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their...

James Hartle, Alan Heeger, Gary Horowitz, Joseph Incandela, Walter Kohn, James Langer, Joseph Polchinski, Douglas Scalapino, Boris Shraiman, and Michael...

context of the string landscape. The book was criticized by physicist Joseph Polchinski and other string theorists. In his earlier book Three Roads to Quantum...

particle Brane D-brane Polchinski, Joseph Gerard (2004). String theory. Vol. 1: An introduction to the bosonic string / Joseph Polchinski (Reprint ed.). Cambridge:...

cosmological inflation. It was subsequently realized by string theorist Joseph Polchinski that the expanding Universe could have stretched a "fundamental" string...

2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Cumrun Vafa and Joseph Polchinski. In 2020, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Pasterski–Strominger–Zhiboedov...

Variance hosted a number of guest bloggers, including string theorist Joseph Polchinski reviewing Lee Smolin's book The Trouble With Physics. Physics World...

regardless of what type of object was sent to the past. Physicist Joseph Polchinski considered a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard...

Poiseuille, French physicist – poise, Poiseuille's Law. Joseph Polchinski, American physicist – Polchinski's paradox. Marco Polo, Italian explorer – Marco Polo...

object sent through the wormhole.: 509  By way of response, physicist Joseph Polchinski wrote them a letter arguing that one could avoid the issue of free...

America Rye, philanthropist, poet Garrick Ohlsson, classical pianist Joseph Polchinski, theoretical physicist and string theorist (b) Scott Reiniger, actor...

Santa Barbara Physics Department. Former Permanent Members include Joseph Polchinski and Physics Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek. Galileo Galilei Institute...

connections between black hole entropy and fluid surface tension. Joseph Polchinski Robert Wald See List of loop quantum gravity researchers. Carlip,...

Balthasar van der Pol – Netherlands (1889–1959) electrical engineer Joseph Polchinski – United States (1954–2018) Hugh David Politzer – United States (born...

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". Breakthrough Prize. "Joseph Polchinski - University of California, Santa Barbara and Kavli Institute for...

who also made important contributions to the success of LIGO. 2017 Joseph Polchinski For transformative advances in quantum field theory, string theory...

theory and resulting resolution of some spacetime singularities (with Joseph Polchinski and others). Other significant research contributions include the...

different theories of strings were also related to M-theory. In 1995, Joseph Polchinski discovered that the theory requires the inclusion of higher-dimensional...

a different limit of a single underlying theory called M-theory. Polchinski, Joseph (1998). String Theory: Superstring Theory and Beyond. Vol. 2. Cambridge...

more compelling arguments (detailed below) that monopoles do exist. Joseph Polchinski, a string theorist, described the existence of monopoles as "one of...

physicists including Sean Carroll and string theorists Joseph Polchinski and Luboš Motl. Polchinski's review states, "In the end, these [Smolin and others']...

February 2 Jon Huntsman Sr., businessman and philanthropist (b. 1937) Joseph Polchinski, theoretical physicist (b. 1954) February 3 Sam Cataldo, politician...

for his work on finite groups Joseph Rhodes Jr. (1969, History) Pennsylvanian politician and activist Joseph Polchinski (1975) known for D-branes in string...

on flux compactifications (including work with Steve Giddings and Joseph Polchinski), which can stabilize the extra dimensions of string theory. In collaboration...