Polchinski, Joseph Gerard
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Name (Hebrew)
פולצ'ינסקי, ג'וזף
Name (Latin)
Polchinski, Joseph Gerard
Date of birth
1954-05-16
Date of death
2018-02-02
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Guide to the Joseph Polchinski papers, via Online Archive of California, viewed July 20, 2026):biographical note (Joseph Gerard Polchinski, Jr.; born May 16, 1954; died February 2, 2018; American theoretical physicist and string theorist; graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1971; B.S. in Physics, California Institute of Technology in 1975; PhD in Physics, University of California, Berkeley in 1980; postdoctoral research at Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) and at Harvard University; faculty at University of Texas at Austin, 1984-1992; Professor of Physics and member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, at University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992-2017; discovered D-branes; author of two-volume text on string theory)
- Memories of a theoretical physicist, 2022:ECIP title page (Joseph Polchinski) data view (b. 1954)
- Recent directions in particle theory, 1993:CIP t.p. (Joseph Polchinski; U. of Texas at Austin)
- nuc87-82056: His Vortex operators in gauge field theories, 1980(hdg. on CU rept.: Polchinski, Joseph Gerard; usage: Joseph Gerard Polchinski)
- Recent dir. in particle theory, 1993:CIP t.p. (Joseph Polchinski; U. of Texas at Austin)