Brian Greene
Physicist, Academic
1963 –
Who is Brian Greene?
Brian Randolph Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds. He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point. He has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Hidden Reality, and related PBS television specials. Greene also appeared on The Big Bang Theory episode "The Herb Garden Germination", as well as the films Frequency and The Last Mimzy.
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- Born
- Feb 9, 1963
New York City - Also known as
- Dr. Brian Greene
- Brian R. Greene
- B. Greene
- Parents
- Spouses
- Religion
- Agnosticism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- University of Oxford
- Stuyvesant High School
- Employment
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Lived in
- United States of America
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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