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Juan Maldacena

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1968 – настоящее время · string theory, quantum gravity, quantum field theory
Argentine theoretical physicist, who proposed the AdS/CFT correspondence (Maldacena conjecture), which links string theory in anti-de Sitter space with conformal field theory on its boundary. This revolutionary discovery made it possible to study strongly interacting quantum systems through gravity and vice versa.

Biography

Received his PhD from Princeton University in 1996. Worked at Harvard, and since 2001 has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Recipient of numerous awards, including the Lorentz Medal, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology, and the Fundamental Physics Prize.

Key discoveries

💡 Maldacena is one of the most cited physicists of today; his 1998 paper on AdS/CFT has accumulated tens of thousands of citations.
Quote: "The universe is arranged in such a way that the apparent complexity of a black hole can be described by a simple theory on the boundary."
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