Mersini-Houghton, Laura

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Name (Latin)
Mersini-Houghton, Laura
Other forms of name
Houghton, Laura Mersini-
Mersini, Laura
Date of birth
1969
Field of activity
Cosmology
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 232091571
Wikidata: Q949565
Library of congress: no2012026075
Sources of Information
  • Mersini-Houghton, Laura. Before the big bang, 2022:title page (Laura Mersini-Houghton) jacket flap (Laura Mersini-Houghton is an internationally renowned cosmologist and theoretical physicist and is one of the world's leading experts on the multiverse and the origins of the universe. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
  • Cosmic update, c2012:t.p. (Laura Mersini-Houghton) t.p. verso (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.)
  • OCLC, Feb. 22, 2012(hdg.: Mersini, Laura; usage: Laura Mersini; author's Ph. D. thesis, Univ of Wis.-Milwaukee, 2000)
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Wikipedia description:

Laura Mersini-Houghton (née Mersini) is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a proponent of the multiverse hypothesis and the author of a theory for the origin of the universe that holds that our universe is one of many selected by quantum gravitational dynamics of matter and energy. Mersini-Houghton has claimed that her theory explains unusual astrophysical data. She argues that anomalies in the current structure of the universe are best explained as the gravitational tug exerted by other universes.

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