Paul Ginsparg

Paul Ginsparg
Ginsparg in 2006
Born	Paul Henry Ginsparg (1955-01-01) January 1, 1955 (age 69) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University (B.A.) Cornell University (Ph.D.)
Known for	ArXiv Ginsparg–Wilson equation
Awards	MacArthur Fellowship
Scientific career
Institutions	Harvard University Los Alamos National Laboratory Cornell University
Thesis	Aspects of Symmetry Behavior in Quantum Field Theory (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth G. Wilson[1]
Website	physics.cornell.edu/paul-ginsparg

Paul Henry Ginsparg (born January 1, 1955) is an American

He is a graduate of Syosset High School in Syosset, New York, on Long Island. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics with a thesis titled Aspects of Symmetry Behavior in Quantum Field Theory.

Career in physics

Ginsparg was a junior fellow and taught in the physics department at Harvard University until 1990.^[4] The pre-print archive was developed while he was a member of staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990–2001. Since 2001, Ginsparg has been a professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University.^[5]

He has published physics papers in the areas of quantum field theory, string theory, conformal field theory, and quantum gravity. He often comments on the changing world of physics in the Information Age.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Awards

He has been awarded the P.A.M. (Physics-Astronomy-Math) Award from the

He has two children - a daughter, Miryam Ginsparg (b. 2000), and a son, Noam Ginsparg (b. 2004). His wife is Laura Jones, a mathematical biologist and researcher.

Publications

• "Creating a global knowledge network", UNESCO Expert Conference on Electronic Publishing in Science, Paris, 19–23 February 2001, Second Joint ICSU Press
• Fluctuating geometries in statistical mechanics and field theory, Editors François David, Paul Ginsparg, Jean Zinn-Justin,
  ISBN 978-0-444-82294-9
• "First Steps toward Electronic Research Communication", Gateways to knowledge: the role of academic libraries in teaching, learning, and research, Editor Lawrence Dowler,
  ISBN 978-0-262-04159-1
• Ginsparg, P. (2006). "As We May Read". Journal of Neuroscience. 26 (38): 9606–9608.
  PMID 16988030
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• Ginsparg, P.; Houle, P.; Joachims, T.; Sul, J. (2004). "Mapping subsets of scholarly information". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (Suppl 1): 5236–5240.
  PMID 14766973
  .
• Bachrach, S.; Berry, R.; Blume, M.; Von Foerster, T.; Fowler, A.; Ginsparg, P.; Heller, S.; Kestner, N.; Odlyzko, A.; Okerson, A.; Wigington, R.; Moffat, A. (1998). "Who should own scientific papers?". Science. 281 (5382): 1459–1460.
  S2CID 36290551
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• Freedman, D.; Ginsparg, P.; Sommerfield, C.; Warner, N. (1987). "String-ghost interactions and the trace anomaly". Physical Review D. 36 (6): 1800–1818.
  PMID 9958364
  .
• Ginsparg, P. (1987). "On toroidal compactification of heterotic superstrings". Physical Review D. 35 (2): 648–654.
  PMID 9957701
  .