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Juan Martín Maldacena

1968 - Today

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Juan Martín Maldacena (Latin American Spanish: [maldaˈsena]; born 10 September 1968) is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has made significant contributions to the foundations of string theory and quantum gravity. His most famous discovery is the AdS/CFT correspondence, a realization of the holographic principle in string theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan Martín Maldacena is the 772nd most popular physicist (down from 748th in 2019), the 598th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 570th in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Juan Martín Maldacena ranks 772 out of 851Before him are Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, Robert Marshak, Ernst Stueckelberg, Gersh Budker, Ronald Drever, and Paul Corkum. After him are Samuel King Allison, C. R. Hagen, Julian Barbour, Miguel Alcubierre, Emil Wolf, and Egon Orowan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Juan Martín Maldacena ranks 328Before him are Nariyasu Yasuhara, Jørn Lande, Cynthia Watros, Mariana Mazzucato, Rakim, and Cyrus Mistry. After him are José Carlos de Almeida, Mark Ivanir, Cecilia Malmström, Taylor Wane, Andriy Kuzmenko, and Dan Calichman.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Juan Martín Maldacena ranks 598 out of 1,154Before him are Andrés Calamaro (1961), Cristian Romero (1998), Fito Páez (1963), Gustavo Zapata (1967), Luisa Valenzuela (1938), and Pablo Cavallero (1974). After him are Delfo Cabrera (1919), Guillermo Coria (1982), Lucrecia Martel (1966), Martita Hunt (1900), Néstor Lorenzo (1966), and Juan Pedevilla (1909).

Among PHYSICISTS In Argentina

Among physicists born in Argentina, Juan Martín Maldacena ranks 1