John Henry Schwarz (/ʃwɔːrts/SHWORTS; born November 22, 1941) is an Americantheoretical physicist.^[5] Along withYoichiro Nambu,Holger Bech Nielsen,Joël Scherk,Gabriele Veneziano,Michael Green, andLeonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders ofstring theory.

He studied mathematics atHarvard College (A.B., 1962) and theoretical physics at theUniversity of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., 1966), where his graduate advisor wasGeoffrey Chew.For several years he was one of the very few physicists who pursuedstring theory as a viable theory ofquantum gravity.

His work withMichael Green onanomaly cancellation in Type I string theories led to the so-called "first superstring revolution" of 1984, which greatly contributed to moving string theory into the mainstream of research in theoretical physics.^[6]

Schwarz was anassistant professor atPrinceton University from 1966 to 1972. He then moved to theCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is currently theHarold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics.^[7]

He was elected a member of theNational Academy of Sciences and aFellow of the American Physical Society (1986).^[8] He was a fellow of theMacArthur Foundation in 1987.

He received theDirac Medal of theInternational Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1989, and theDannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics of theAmerican Physical Society in 2002. On December 12, 2013, he shared theFundamental Physics Prize with Michael Green "for opening new perspectives on quantum gravity and the unification of forces."

• Green, M., John H. Schwarz, andE. Witten. Superstring Theory. Vol. 1, Introduction. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.ISBN 9780521357524.
• Superstring Theory. Vol. 2, Loop Amplitutes, Anomalies and Phenomenology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.ISBN 9780521357531.
• Becker, Katrin,Melanie Becker, and John H. Schwarz.String theory and M-theory: A modern introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2006.ISBN 978-0-521-86069-7.

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• Schwarz, John H. (March 11, 2016)."Unifying GR with Quantum Theory"(PDF).Burke Institute, Caltech.
• "Interview with John H. Schwarz by Sara Lippincott. Pasadena, California, July 21 and 26, 2000".Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives.
• Oral history interview transcript with John Schwarz on 7 July 2020, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• "Some Basic Superstring Theory, John Schwarz | Lecture 1 of 2".YouTube. aoflex. December 24, 2013. (July 14. 2008 lecture)
• "PiTP-Some Basic Superstring Theory, Part 2 - John Schwarz".YouTube. July 11, 2017. (July 15, 2008 lecture)
• "Day 3, Theoretical Physics Session, John Schwarz".YouTube. Int'l Centre for Theoretical Physics. October 15, 2014.
• "John Schwarz - Lecture: String Theory #NFLS".YouTube. Nobel Fest. April 15, 2021.
• "John Schwarz - String Theory: Past, Present, and Future".YouTube. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. December 14, 2021.

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