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'''Leonard Susskind''' (born June 1940)<ref name=lennyfest>{{cite web | date = May 20–21, 2000 | url = http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/events/lennyfest.html | title = Lennyfest | postscript = :}}his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.</ref><ref name=santafe>{{cite web | date = June 26, 2013 | url = http://www.santafe.edu/news/item/lecture-susskind-arrow-of-time/ | title = Why is Time a One-Way Street?| postscript = :}}in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent.</ref> is the ] Professor of ] at ], and Director of the ]. His research interests include ], ], ] and ].<ref name=StanfordFaculty>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/susskind_leonard.html|title=Faculty information sheet|publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=2009-09-01}}</ref> He is a member of the ],<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=05022000|date=May 2, 2000|title=60 New Members Chosen by Academy|publisher=National Academy of Sciences (press release)|accessdate=2009-09-01}}</ref> and the ],<ref name=bioAtEdge/> an associate member of the faculty of Canada's ],<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/news/leonard-susskind-joins-pi | title = Leonard Susskind Joins PI | date = October 15, 2007 }}</ref> and a distinguished professor of the ].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.kias.re.kr/sub02/sub02_01_01.jsp?empid=MTAwNjc= | publisher = ] | title = Susskind, Leonard: Distinguished Professor / School of Physics : Theoretical Particle Physics }}</ref> '''Leonard Susskind''' (born June 1940)<ref name=lennyfest>{{cite web | date = May 20–21, 2000 | url = http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/events/lennyfest.html | title = Lennyfest | postscript = :}}his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.</ref><ref name=santafe>{{cite web | date = June 26, 2013 | url = http://www.santafe.edu/news/item/lecture-susskind-arrow-of-time/ | title = Why is Time a One-Way Street?| postscript = :}}in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent.</ref> is the ] professor of ] at ], and director of the ]. His research interests include ], ], ] and ].<ref name=StanfordFaculty>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/susskind_leonard.html|title=Faculty information sheet|publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=2009-09-01}}</ref> He is a member of the ] of the ],<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=05022000|date=May 2, 2000|title=60 New Members Chosen by Academy|publisher=USA National Academy of Sciences (press release)|accessdate=2009-09-01}}</ref> and the ],<ref name=bioAtEdge/> an associate member of the faculty of ]'s ],<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/news/leonard-susskind-joins-pi | title = Leonard Susskind Joins PI | date = October 15, 2007 }}</ref> and a distinguished professor of the ].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.kias.re.kr/sub02/sub02_01_01.jsp?empid=MTAwNjc= | publisher = ] | title = Susskind, Leonard: Distinguished Professor / School of Physics : Theoretical Particle Physics }}</ref>


Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of ],<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Media/PodcastDetail.aspx?cid=2578b7c1-2032-4818-a461-0febfddf2707 | publisher = NYAS Publications | title = Father of String Theory Muses on the Megaverse }}</ref> having, with ] and ], independently introduced the idea that particles could in fact be states of excitation of a relativistic string.<ref>http://www.veccal.ernet.in/~iwlsc/qgp/Haridass_talk.ppt {{dead link|date=December 2012}}</ref>{{unreliable source|date=October 2013}} He was the first to introduce the idea of the ] in 2003.<ref name="arXiv-0302219">{{Cite arxiv | eprint=hep-th/0302219 | author1=Leonard Susskind | title=The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory | class=hep-th | year=2003 }}</ref><ref name="SciAm-2011">{{cite doi|10.1038/scientificamerican0711-80}}</ref> Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of ],<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Media/PodcastDetail.aspx?cid=2578b7c1-2032-4818-a461-0febfddf2707 | publisher = {{abbr|NYAS|New York Academy of Sciences}} Publications | title = Father of String Theory Muses on the Megaverse }}</ref> having, with ] and ], independently introduced the idea that particles could in fact be states of excitation of a relativistic string.<ref>http://www.veccal.ernet.in/~iwlsc/qgp/Haridass_talk.ppt {{dead link|date=December 2012}}</ref>{{unreliable source|date=October 2013}} He was the first to introduce the idea of the ] in 2003.<ref name="arXiv-0302219">{{Cite arxiv | eprint=hep-th/0302219 | author1=Leonard Susskind | title=The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory | class=hep-th | year=2003 }}</ref><ref name="SciAm-2011">{{cite doi|10.1038/scientificamerican0711-80}}</ref>


Susskind was awarded the ].<ref name=Sakurai/> Susskind was awarded the ].<ref name=Sakurai/>


==Early life and education== == Early life and education ==
⚫ Born Leonard Susskind to a Jewish family from the ] section of ],<ref name=LATimes2008>{{cite web | url = http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/26/science/sci-susskind26 | title = Leonard Susskind discusses duel with Stephen Hawking | work = LA Times | date = July 26, 2008 }}</ref> he now resides in ], ]. He began working as a ] at the age of 16, taking over from his father who had become ill.<ref name=LATimes2008/> Later, he enrolled in the ] as an engineering student, graduating with a ] in ] in 1962.<ref name=bioAtEdge /> In an interview in the '']'', Susskind recalls the moment he discussed with his father this change in career path: "When I told my father I wanted to be a physicist, he said, ‘Hell no, you ain’t going to work in a drug store.’ I said no, not a ]. I said, ‘Like ].’ He poked me in the chest with a piece of plumbing pipe. ‘You ain’t going to be no engineer,’ he said. ‘You’re going to be Einstein.’"<ref name=LATimes2008/> Susskind then studied at ] under ] where he earned his Ph.D. in 1965. He has been married twice, first in 1960,<ref name=bioAtEdge> ''Leonard Susskind - A Biography'' (last accessed August 12, 2007).</ref> and has four children.


⚫ Born Leonard Susskind to a ] family from the ] section of ],<ref name=LATimes2008>{{cite web | url = http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/26/science/sci-susskind26 | title = Leonard Susskind discusses duel with Stephen Hawking | work = Los Angeles Times | date = July 26, 2008 }}</ref> he now resides in ], ]. He began working as a ] at the age of 16, taking over from his father who had become ill.<ref name=LATimes2008/> Later, he enrolled in the ] as an engineering student, graduating with a ] in ] in 1962.<ref name=bioAtEdge /> In an interview in the '']'', Susskind recalls the moment he discussed with his father this change in career path: "When I told my father I wanted to be a physicist, he said: ‘Hell no, you ain’t going to work in a drug store.’ I said no, not a pharmacist. I said: ‘Like Einstein.’ He poked me in the chest with a piece of plumbing pipe. ‘You ain’t going to be no engineer’, he said. ‘You’re going to be Einstein.’"<ref name=LATimes2008/> Susskind then studied at ] under ] where he earned his Ph.D. in 1965. He has been married twice, first in 1960,<ref name=bioAtEdge> • ''Leonard Susskind - A Biography'' (last accessed August 12, 2007).</ref> and has four children.
⚫ ==Career==
⚫ Susskind was an Assistant Professor of Physics, then an Associate Professor at ] (1966–1970), after which he went for a year at the ] (1971–72), returning to Yeshiva to become a Professor of Physics (1970–1979). Since 1979 he has been Professor of Physics at ],<ref name=StanfordFaculty/> and since 2000 has held the ] Professorship of Physics.


⚫ == Career ==
⚫ Susskind was awarded the ] for his "pioneering contributions to ], ], ], and dynamical symmetry breaking." Susskind's hallmark, according to colleagues, has been the application of "brilliant imagination and originality to the theoretical study of the nature of the elementary particles and forces that make up the physical world."<ref name=Sakurai>{{cite press release | url = http://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/971105sakurai.html | title = Susskind wins prestigious Sakurai Prize in theoretical physics | publisher = Stanford University | first = David F. | last = Salisbury | date = 11 May 1997 }}</ref>


⚫ Susskind was an assistant professor of physics, then an associate professor at ] (1966–1970), after which he went for a year at the ] (1971–72), returning to Yeshiva to become a professor of physics (1970–1979). Since 1979 he has been professor of physics at ],<ref name=StanfordFaculty/> and since 2000 has held the ] professorship of physics.
⚫ In 2007, Susskind joined the Faculty of ] in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, as an Associate Member. He has been elected to the ] and the ]. He is also a ] at ].<ref></ref>

⚫ Susskind was awarded the ] for his "pioneering contributions to ], ], ], and dynamical symmetry breaking". Susskind's hallmark, according to colleagues, has been the application of "brilliant imagination and originality to the theoretical study of the nature of the elementary particles and forces that make up the physical world".<ref name=Sakurai>{{cite press release | url = http://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/971105sakurai.html | title = Susskind wins prestigious Sakurai Prize in theoretical physics | publisher = Stanford University | first = David F. | last = Salisbury | date = 11 May 1997 }}</ref>

⚫ In 2007, Susskind joined the faculty of ] in Waterloo, ], Canada, as an associate member. He has been elected to the ] and the ]. He is also a ] at ].<ref></ref>


===Scientific career=== ===Scientific career===

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Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind
BornJune 1940 (1940-06) (age 84)
South Bronx, New York City, USA
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materCity College of New York
Cornell University
Known forHolographic principle
String theory
String theory landscape
Color confinement
Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory
AwardsPomeranchuk Prize (2008)
American Institute of Physics' Science Writing Award
Sakurai Prize (1998)
Boris Pregel Award, New York Academy of Sciences (1975)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, mathematics
InstitutionsYeshiva University
Tel Aviv University
Stanford University
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Doctoral advisorPeter A. Carruthers

Leonard Susskind (born June 1940) is the Felix Bloch professor of Theoretical physics at Stanford University, and director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.

Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory, having, with Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, independently introduced the idea that particles could in fact be states of excitation of a relativistic string. He was the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003.

Susskind was awarded the 1998 J. J. Sakurai Prize.

Early life and education

Born Leonard Susskind to a Jewish family from the South Bronx section of New York City, he now resides in Palo Alto, California. He began working as a plumber at the age of 16, taking over from his father who had become ill. Later, he enrolled in the City College of New York as an engineering student, graduating with a B.S. in physics in 1962. In an interview in the Los Angeles Times, Susskind recalls the moment he discussed with his father this change in career path: "When I told my father I wanted to be a physicist, he said: ‘Hell no, you ain’t going to work in a drug store.’ I said no, not a pharmacist. I said: ‘Like Einstein.’ He poked me in the chest with a piece of plumbing pipe. ‘You ain’t going to be no engineer’, he said. ‘You’re going to be Einstein.’" Susskind then studied at Cornell University under Peter A. Carruthers where he earned his Ph.D. in 1965. He has been married twice, first in 1960, and has four children.

Career

Susskind was an assistant professor of physics, then an associate professor at Yeshiva University (1966–1970), after which he went for a year at the University of Tel Aviv (1971–72), returning to Yeshiva to become a professor of physics (1970–1979). Since 1979 he has been professor of physics at Stanford University, and since 2000 has held the Felix Bloch professorship of physics.

Susskind was awarded the 1998 J. J. Sakurai Prize for his "pioneering contributions to hadronic string models, lattice gauge theories, quantum chromodynamics, and dynamical symmetry breaking". Susskind's hallmark, according to colleagues, has been the application of "brilliant imagination and originality to the theoretical study of the nature of the elementary particles and forces that make up the physical world".

In 2007, Susskind joined the faculty of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, as an associate member. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a distinguished professor at Korea Institute for Advanced Study.

Scientific career

Susskind was one of at least three physicists who independently discovered during or around 1970 that the Veneziano dual resonance model of strong interactions could be described by a quantum mechanical model of strings, and was the first to propose the idea of the string theory landscape. Susskind has also made contributions in the following areas of physics:

Books

Susskind is the author of several popular science books.

The Cosmic Landscape

Main article: The Cosmic Landscape

The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design is Susskind's first popular science book, published by Little, Brown and Company on December 12, 2005. It is Susskind's attempt to bring his idea of the anthropic landscape of string theory to the general public. In the book, Susskind describes how the string theory landscape was an almost inevitable consequence of several factors, one of which was Steven Weinberg's prediction of the cosmological constant in 1987. The question addressed here is why our universe is fine-tuned for our existence. Susskind explains that Weinberg calculated that if the cosmological constant was just a little different, our universe would cease to exist.

The Black Hole War

Main articles: The Black Hole War and Susskind-Hawking battle

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is Susskind's second popular science book, published by Little, Brown, and Company on July 7, 2008. The book is his most famous work and explains what he thinks would happen to the information and matter stored in a black hole when it evaporates. The book sparked from a debate that started in 1981, when there was a meeting of physicists to try to decode some of the mysteries about how particles of particular elemental compounds function. During this discussion Stephen Hawking stated that the information inside a black hole is lost forever as the black hole evaporates. It took 28 years for Leonard Susskind to formulate his theory that would prove Hawking wrong. He then published his theory in his book, The Black Hole War. Like The Cosmic Landscape, The Black Hole War is aimed at the lay reader. He writes: "The real tools for understanding the quantum universe are abstract mathematics: infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, projection operators, unitary matrices and a lot of other advanced principles that take a few years to learn. But let's see how we do in just a few pages."

The Theoretical Minimum book series

Susskind is currently co-authoring a series of companion books to his lecture series The Theoretical Minimum. The first of these, The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics, was published in 2013 and presents the modern formulations of classical mechanics. The second of these, Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, was published in February 2014. The next book is expected to focus on special relativity.

The Theoretical Minimum lecture series

Susskind teaches a series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses about modern physics referred to as The Theoretical Minimum. These lectures later formed the basis for the books of the same name. The goal of the courses is to teach the basic but rigorous theoretical foundations required to study certain areas of physics. The sequence covers classical mechanics, relativity, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology, including the physics of black holes.

These courses are available on the The Theoretical Minimum website, on iTunes, and on YouTube. The courses are intended for the mathematically literate public as well as physical science/mathematics students. Susskind aims the courses at people with prior exposure to algebra, calculus, vectors, differential calculus, integrals, and perhaps differential operators, matrices, and linear equations. Homework and study outside of class is otherwise unnecessary. Susskind explains most of the mathematics used, which form the basis of the lectures.

Smolin–Susskind debate

The Smolin-Susskind debate refers to the series of intense postings in 2004 between Lee Smolin and Susskind, concerning Smolin’s argument that the "Anthropic Principle cannot yield any falsifiable predictions, and therefore cannot be a part of science." It began on July 26, 2004, with Smolin's publication of "Scientific alternatives to the anthropic principle". Smolin e-mailed Susskind asking for a comment. Having not had the chance to read the paper, Susskind requested a summarization of his arguments. Smolin obliged, and on July 28, 2004, Susskind responded, saying that the logic Smolin followed "can lead to ridiculous conclusions". The next day, Smolin responded, saying that "If a large body of our colleagues feels comfortable believing a theory that cannot be proved wrong, then the progress of science could get stuck, leading to a situation in which false, but unfalsifiable theories dominate the attention of our field." This was followed by another paper by Susskind which made a few comments about Smolin's theory of "cosmic natural selection". The Smolin-Susskind debate finally ended with each of them agreeing to write a final letter which would be posted on Edge, with three conditions attached: (1) No more than one letter each; (2) Neither sees the other's letter in advance; (3) No changes after the fact.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Faculty information sheet". Stanford University. Retrieved 2009-09-01. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. In a review of Susskind's book The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, Michael Duff writes that Susskind is "a card-carrying atheist". Life in a landscape of possibilities, December 2005. Retrieved May 30, 2007.
  3. "Lennyfest". May 20–21, 2000:his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.
  4. "Why is Time a One-Way Street?". June 26, 2013:in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent.
  5. "60 New Members Chosen by Academy". USA National Academy of Sciences (press release). May 2, 2000. Retrieved 2009-09-01. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); no-break space character in |publisher= at position 4 (help)
  6. ^ www.edge.org • Leonard Susskind - A Biography (last accessed August 12, 2007).
  7. "Leonard Susskind Joins PI". October 15, 2007.
  8. "Susskind, Leonard: Distinguished Professor / School of Physics : Theoretical Particle Physics". Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
  9. "Father of String Theory Muses on the Megaverse". NYAS Publications.
  10. http://www.veccal.ernet.in/~iwlsc/qgp/Haridass_talk.ppt
  11. ^ Leonard Susskind (2003). "The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory". arXiv:hep-th/0302219. {{cite arXiv}}: |class= ignored (help)
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  13. ^ Salisbury, David F. (11 May 1997). "Susskind wins prestigious Sakurai Prize in theoretical physics" (Press release). Stanford University.
  14. ^ "Leonard Susskind discusses duel with Stephen Hawking". Los Angeles Times. July 26, 2008. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |work= at position 4 (help)
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  16. Schwarz (2000). "String Theory: The Early Years". arXiv:hep-th/0007118. {{cite arXiv}}: |class= ignored (help)
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    • Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking section cites two 1979 publications, one by Steven Weinberg, the other by L. Susskind to represent the earliest models with technicolor and technifermions.
  20. Biography at APS J. J. Sakurai Prize website (last accessed November, 2013)
  21. Leonard Susskind (1993). "Some Speculations about Black Hole Entropy in String Theory". arXiv:hep-th/9309145. {{cite arXiv}}: |class= ignored (help)
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    The insistence on unitarity in the presence of black holes led 't Hooft (1993) and Susskind (1995b) to embrace a more radical, holographic interpretation of ...

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  25. L. Susskind (2005). The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-15579-9.
  26. L. Susskind (2008). The Black Hole War: My battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-01640-3.
  27. Susskind, Leonard; Hrabovsky, George (2013). The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-02811-X.
  28. Susskind, Leonard; Friedman, Art (2014). Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-03667-8.
  29. Gribbin, John (1 February 2013). "Physics Made (Almost) Easy". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  30. "The Theoretical Minimum". theoreticalminimum.com. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  31. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7489/full/506431a.html
  32. "The Theoretical Minimum". Retrieved 12 June 2014. The courses are specifically aimed at people who know, or once knew, a bit of algebra and calculus, but are more or less beginners.
  33. ^ "Smolin vs. Susskind: The Anthropic Principle". Edge Institute. August 2004. Retrieved 2009-09-01. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  34. Letter from Leonard Susskind

Further reading

  • Chown, Marcus, "Our world may be a giant hologram", New Scientist, 15 January 2009, magazine issue 2691. "The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prize winner Gerard 't Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface."

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