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Leonard Susskind

1940 - Today

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Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests are string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonard Susskind is the 454th most popular physicist (down from 420th in 2019), the 3,642nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,821st in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leonard Susskind ranks 454 out of 851. Before him are Katharine Burr Blodgett, Ferenc Krausz, Richard C. Tolman, Albert W. Hull, Chester Carlson, and Henri Tresca. After him are Anatole Abragam, Rudolf Peierls, Erich Hückel, Marie Alfred Cornu, Johanna Budwig, and Hendrik Casimir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Leonard Susskind ranks 187. Before him are Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Michael Parks, Louis Pilot, John Grinder, Tony Sheridan, and Dietmar Hopp. After him are Luis Cubilla, Kipchoge Keino, Mirko Jozić, Wayne Dyer, Vito Acconci, and Vagif Mustafazadeh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leonard Susskind ranks 3,642 out of 20,380. Before him are George Koval (1913), Royal Rife (1888), John Anderson (1907), Barry Manilow (1943), Terence McKenna (1946), and Alan Perlis (1922). After him are John C. Bogle (1929), Nichelle Nichols (1932), Robert Sean Leonard (1969), Thomas Nelson Jr. (1738), Amy Irving (1953), and Duke Kahanamoku (1890).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Leonard Susskind ranks 99. Before him are Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), Albert W. Hull (1880), and Chester Carlson (1906). After him are Clarence Zener (1905), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Alan Sokal (1955), Robert Brout (1928), Theodore Hall (1925), and Robert Serber (1909).

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