Michael Green (physicist)

Michael Green
Born
Michael Boris Green

(1946-05-22) 22 May 1946 (age 77)[2]
London[2]
NationalityBritish[2]
Alma materChurchill College, Cambridge[2]
Known forLorentz-covariant description of superstrings[3]
Classification of the consistent ten-dimensional superstring theories[4]
Green–Schwarz mechanism
GS formalism
SpouseJoanna Chataway[2]
AwardsMaxwell Medal and Prize (1987)
Dirac Medal (ICTP) (1989)
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2002)
Dirac Medal (IOP) (2004)
Naylor Prize and Lectureship (2007)
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Queen Mary College, University of London
Princeton University
University of Oxford
ThesisCrossing Symmetry And Duality in Strong Interactions (1970)
Doctoral advisorRichard J. Eden[1]
Websitewww.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/mbg15
www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/m.b.green

Michael Boris Green FRS HonFInstP (born 22 May 1946) is a British physicist and a pioneer of string theory. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, emeritus professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 2009 to 2015.[5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ Michael Green at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b c d e "GREEN, Prof. Michael Boris". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  3. ^ Green, M. B.; Schwarz, J. H. (1984). "Covariant description of superstrings". Physics Letters B. 136 (5–6): 367. Bibcode:1984PhLB..136..367G. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)92021-5.
  4. ^ Green, M. B., Schwarz, J. H. (1982). "Supersymmetrical string theories." Physics Letters B, 109, 444–448.
  5. ^ Henderson, Mark (20 October 2009). "Stephen Hawking's successor as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics: Michael Green". Times Online. Archived from the original on 18 February 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
  6. ^ "Michael Green elected 18th Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge". University of Cambridge. 20 October 2009. Archived from the original on 25 October 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
  7. ^ Michael Green's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ^ "Cambridge University Reporter No 6380". 18 March 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.

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