Brian greene physicist biography youtube

American theoretical physicist (born 1963)

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Brian Randolph Greene^[1] (born February 9, 1963) is an American physicist known for his research on string theory.

Brian greene physicist biography youtube

He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds).

He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point.

Greene has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Hidden Re