Juan Martín Maldacena
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Juan Martín Maldacena (born September 10, 1968) is a theoretical physicist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among his many discoveries, the most famous one is the most reliable realization of the holographic principle - namely the AdS/CFT correspondence, the successfully tested conjecture about the equivalence of string theory or supergravity on Anti de Sitter space, and a conformal field theory defined on the boundary of the AdS space.
Maldacena obtained his bachelor's degree in 1991 at the Instituto Balseiro from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Bariloche, Argentina, under the supervision of G. Aldazabal. He then obtained his Ph.D. at Princeton University under the supervision of Curtis Callan in 1996, and went on to a post-doctoral position at Rutgers University. In 1997, he joined Harvard University as associate professor, being quickly promoted to Professor of Physics in 1999. Since 2001 he has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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[edit] Awards
Maldacena has received these awards:
- APS Bouchet Award
- Xanthopoulus Prize in General Relativity
- Sackler Prize in Physics
- UNESCO Husein Prize for Young Scientists
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
- MacArthur Fellowship
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- In the Strings 1998 Conference at Santa Barbara, California, a few string theorists sang and danced to Jeff Harvey's song The Maldacena to the tune of Macarena. [1]
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