Gary Horowitz

Gary T. Horowitz (born April 14, 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory and quantum gravity.

Biography

Horowitz studied at

Horowitz investigates gravitational phenomena, such as black holes, in string theory. In the 1990s, he worked with, among others, Andrew Strominger^[1] and Joseph Polchinski showing that string theory provides a description of the quantum microstates of certain black holes (following earlier work of Strominger and Cumrun Vafa).^[2]

In 1985 Horowitz published an influential paper with

• Horowitz, Gary T. (2005). "Spacetime in string theory". New Journal of Physics. 7 (1): 201.
  S2CID 14482408
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• Horowitz, Gary T. (2000). "Quantum Gravity at the Turn of the Millennium".
  arXiv:gr-qc/0011089
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• Horowitz, Gary T.;
  S2CID 15182652
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• Horowitz, Gary T.; Teukolsky, Saul A. (1999). "Black holes". Reviews of Modern Physics. 71 (2): S180–S186.
  S2CID 119326122
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• Horowitz, Gary T. (1997). "Quantum States of Black Holes".
  arXiv:gr-qc/9704072
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• Horowitz, Gary T.; Polchinski, Joseph (2006). "Gauge/Gravity duality".
  arXiv:gr-qc/0602037
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