Michael Duff (physicist)
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Michael James Duff
FRSA is a British theoretical physicist and pioneering theorist of supergravity who is the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London
.
Education
Duff completed his Bachelor of Science in Physics
Queen Mary College London and Brandeis University
.
Academic career
After his postdoctoral fellowships, he returned to
Dirac Medal of the IOP
in 2017.
Contributions
His interests lie in unified theories of the
supermembranes and M-theory.[3] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
and Recipient of the 2004 Meeting Gold Medal, El Colegio Nacional, Mexico.
He is the editor of The World in Eleven Dimensions: Supergravity, Supermembranes and M-theory,
ISBN 0-7503-0672-6.,[4]
a collection of notable scientific articles on string theory.
References
- ^ Curriculum Vitae[permanent dead link]
- .
- ^ Duff, Michael (May 2010). "Black holes and qubits". CERN Courier. 50 (4): 14–16.
- ISBN 978-0-7503-0672-0.
External links
Wikiquote has quotations related to Michael Duff (physicist).
- Imperial College faculty page for Duff
- Michael Duff on INSPIRE-HEP
- Duff, M. J. (2007). "Recent applications of the Weyl Anomaly" (PDF). Mathematical Physics. Prof. Michael Duff presented and published his paper in National Center for Physics in Islamabad, Pakistan. pp. 90–101. )