Jacques Distler | |
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| Born | (1961-01-01)January 1, 1961 (age 65) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University andHerzliah High School (Snowdon) |
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| Fields | physics,string theory |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
Jacques Distler (born January 1, 1961) is a Canadian-born Americanphysicist working instring theory. He has been a professor ofphysics at theUniversity of Texas at Austin since 1994.
Distler was born to a Jewish family inMontreal,Quebec, Canada, where he attendedHerzliah High School (Snowdon) along with noted Pediatric Researcher Daniel Wechsler.[citation needed] He attendedHarvard University, also with Dan Wechsler, for both his bachelors and doctorate in physics. His 1987 thesisCompactified String Theories was supervised bySidney Coleman.[1]
Before going to Texas, he was assistant professor atPrinceton University.
According to citation counts, his most influential publication is his 1989 paper onconformal field theory in two dimensions. His earliest paper isGauge Invariant Superstring Field Theory, co-authored with André LeClair and published in 1986 in Nuclear Physics B.
He has studied the "landscape" ofmetastablevacua in string theory. In July 2005, he released a paper on this topic.[2] Professor Distler was a member of arXiv's physics advisory board.[3][failed verification]
He has ablogMusings: Thoughts on Science, Computing, and Life on Earth, one of the first theoretical physics blogs in the world.[citation needed]
Distler maintains awebpage dedicated to his father, who was born inPoland and escaped the German slave camps ofWorld War II.
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