Michael Duff | |
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| Born | Michael James Duff (1949-01-28)January 28, 1949 (age 77)[1] |
| Alma mater | Queen Mary College, London (BSc) Imperial College London (PhD) |
| Known for | Coining the term "p-brane"[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics,supergravity,string theory,M-theory |
| Institutions | Imperial College London European Organization for Nuclear Research International Centre for Theoretical Physics Queen Mary College, London Texas A&M University University of Michigan |
| Doctoral advisor | Abdus Salam |
Michael James DuffFRS,FRSA is a British theoretical physicist and pioneering theorist ofsupergravity who is the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics atImperial College London.
Duff completed his Bachelor of Science in PhysicsQueen Mary College, London in 1969. He then went on to his Doctor of Philosophy in theoretical physics in 1972 atImperial College London supervised by theNobel LaureateAbdus Salam. He did postdoctoral fellowships at theInternational Centre for Theoretical Physics,University of Oxford,King's College London,Queen Mary College London andBrandeis University.
After his postdoctoral fellowships, he returned toImperial College in 1979 on a Science Research Council Advanced Fellowship and joined the faculty there in 1980. He took leave of absence to visit the Theory Division inCERN, first in 1982 and then again as a Staff Member from 1984 to 1987 when he became Senior Physicist. He has held Visiting Professorships and Fellowships at theUniversity of Texas, Austin; theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, theUniversity of Kyoto and the Isaac Newton Institute,University of Cambridge. He took up his professorship atTexas A&M University in 1988 and was appointed Distinguished Professor in 1992. In 1999 he moved to theUniversity of Michigan, where he was Oskar Klein Professor of Physics. In 2001, he was elected first Director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and was re-elected in 2004. He returned again to Imperial College, London and became Professor of Physics and Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences in 2005. He was appointed Abdus Salam Professor of Theoretical Physics in 2006. He won theDirac Medal of the IOP in 2017.
His interests lie in unified theories of theelementary particles,quantum gravity,supergravity,Kaluza–Klein theory,superstrings,supermembranes andM-theory.[3] He is a Fellow of theRoyal Society, a Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society, a Fellow of theInstitute of Physics (UK), a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Arts and Recipient of the 2004 Meeting Gold Medal, El Colegio Nacional, Mexico.
He is the editor ofThe World in Eleven Dimensions: Supergravity, Supermembranes and M-theory,ISBN 0-7503-0672-6.,[4] a collection of notable scientific articles on string theory.
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