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Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American physicist. Greene was a physics professor at Cornell University from 1990–1995, and has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008.
Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University. Professor Greene is world-renowned for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of superstring theory, including the co-discovery of mirror symmetry and the discovery of spatial topology change.
Apr 29, 2024 · Brian Greene, American physicist who greatly popularized string theory through his television shows and his books, the latter of which included The Elegant Universe (1999) and The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004). Learn more about Greene’s life and career.
Brian Greene is well-known for his general-level writings. His first book, The Elegant Universe, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and won Britain’s top prize for a book on science.
In this visually rich, action-packed talk, Brian Greene shows how the unanswered questions of physics (starting with a big one: What caused the Big Bang?) have led to the theory that our own universe is just one of many in the "multiverse."
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Brian Greene is perhaps the best-known proponent of superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in a higher dimensional space-time create every particle and force in the universe.
