Thomas Hertog
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Thomas Hertog is a Belgian cosmologist at KU Leuven university and was a key collaborator of Professor Stephen Hawking.[1]
Early life
Thomas Hertog was born on 27 May 1975. He graduated
cosmic expansion under the supervision of Stephen Hawking
.
Career
Hertog had the opportunity to conduct research with
Big Bang theory.[2]
He then worked as a researcher at the
Université de Paris VII in France. He became a fellow at CERN in Geneva in 2005. In October 2011, Hertog was appointed professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at KU Leuven through the Odysseus program of the Flemish government.[3] He led a research group studying the relationship between the Big Bang and string theory, with the idea that concepts like space and time lose their meaning. He also emphasized Georges Lemaître's insight that the Big Bang is central to Einstein's gravitational waves. Hertog worked in the field of quantum cosmology and string theory with James Hartle and Stephen Hawking. In 2011, after years of research, they came to a new insight by combining the mathematics of quantum cosmology and that of string theory.[citation needed] In 2018, he published 'A smooth exit from eternal inflation?' with Stephen Hawking.[4]
Selected publications
Books
- Hertog, Thomas; Baert, Barbara; Van de Stock, Jan (2021). Big Bang: Imagining the Universe. Translated by Simpson, Helen; Logan, Sandy. Hannibal Books. ISBN 9789463887878.
- Hertog, Thomas (2023). On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory. Random House. ISBN 9780593128442.
Journal articles
- Binétruy, P.; Bohé, A.; Hertog, T.; Steer, D. A. (2009-12-09). "Gravitational wave bursts from cosmic superstrings with Y-junctions". Physical Review D. 80 (12). American Physical Society (APS): 123510. S2CID 7271201.
- Hertog, Thomas; Horowitz, Gary T (2004-07-30). "Towards a Big Crunch Dual". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2004 (7). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 073. S2CID 16255740.
- Hawking, S. W.; Hertog, T.; Reall, H. S. (2000-06-29). "Brane new world". Physical Review D. 62 (4). American Physical Society (APS): 043501. S2CID 7180487.
- Hawking, S. W.; Hertog, Thomas (2018). "A smooth exit from eternal inflation?". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018 (4). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 147. S2CID 13745992.
See also
References
- ^ "KU Leuven who's who - Thomas Hertog". www.kuleuven.be.
- ^ Dirk Draulans, Eindeloos veel heelallen, in: Knack, 4 juli 2012, p. 76 t.e.m. 80.
- ^ "Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen - Odysseusprogramma". www.fwo.be.
- S2CID 13745992.
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