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Laura Mersini-Houghton

1969 - Today

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Laura Mersini-Houghton (née Mersini) is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a proponent of the multiverse hypothesis and the author of a theory for the origin of the universe that holds that our universe is one of many selected by quantum gravitational dynamics of matter and energy. Predictions of her theory have been successfully tested by astrophysical data.. She argues that anomalies in the current structure of the universe are best explained as the gravitational tug exerted by other universes. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Laura Mersini-Houghton is the 845th most popular physicist (up from 846th in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Albania and the most popular Albanian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Laura Mersini-Houghton ranks 845 out of 851. Before her are Nima Arkani-Hamed, Neil Turok, Jim Al-Khalili, Katherine Freese, Sean M. Carroll, and Ashoke Sen. After her are Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Nergis Mavalvala, Philip Kim, Jess Wade, and Joseph Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Laura Mersini-Houghton ranks 1,025. Before her are Mike Stulce, Todd Hays, Fabrizio Mori, Kelly Link, Takayoshi Amma, and Pierre Turgeon. After her are Sean Anders, Cathy Dennis, Viktor Maigourov, Peter Craig, Loren Bouchard, and CeCe Peniston.

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In Albania

Among people born in Albania, Laura Mersini-Houghton ranks 131 out of 150. Before her are Klodian Duro (1977), Olta Boka (1991), Luiz Ejlli (1985), Anjeza Shahini (1987), Edmond Kapllani (1982), and Ervin Bulku (1981). After her are Elis Bakaj (1987), Jahmir Hyka (1988), Romela Begaj (1986), Armando Sadiku (1991), Ergys Kaçe (1993), and Ditmir Bushati (1977).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Albania

Among physicists born in Albania, Laura Mersini-Houghton ranks 1. 

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