Michael Duff (physicist)

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Michael Duff
European Organization for Nuclear Research

Queen Mary College, London
Texas A&M University
University of Michigan
Doctoral advisorAbdus Salam

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

.

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,

a collection of notable scientific articles on string theory.

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