American physicist
Paul Henry Ginsparg is an Americanphysicist . He developed thearXiv.org e-print archive .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
He is a graduate ofSyosset High School inSyosset, New York , onLong Island . He graduated fromHarvard University with aBachelor of Arts in physics and fromCornell University with aDoctor of Philosophy in theoretical particle physics with a thesis titledAspects of symmetry behavior in quantum field theory .
Ginsparg was a junior fellow and taught in the physics department atHarvard University until 1990.[ 4] Los Alamos National Laboratory , 1990–2001. Since 2001, Ginsparg has been a professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science atCornell University .[ 5]
He has published physics papers in the areas ofquantum field theory ,string theory ,conformal field theory , andquantum gravity . He often comments on the changing world of physics in theInformation Age .[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11]
Ginsparg in 2025 He has been awarded the P.A.M. (Physics-Astronomy-Math) Award from theSpecial Libraries Association ,[ 12] Lingua Franca American Physical Society , awarded aMacArthur Fellowship in 2002,[ 13] Council of Science Editors Award for Meritorious Achievement, and received the Paul Evans Peters Award fromEducause ,ARL , andCNI .[ 14] Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2008–2009.[ 4] [ 15] [ 16] Einstein Foundation Award in 2021 for creating the arXiv.org.[ 17]
He has two children - a daughter, Miryam Ginsparg (b. 2000), and a son, Noam Ginsparg (b. 2004). His wife is Laura Jones, amathematical biologist and researcher.
"Creating a global knowledge network" ,UNESCO Expert Conference on Electronic Publishing in ScienceFluctuating geometries in statistical mechanics and field theory , Editors François David, Paul Ginsparg, Jean Zinn-Justin,Elsevier , 1996,ISBN 978-0-444-82294-9 "First Steps toward Electronic Research Communication" ,Gateways to knowledge: the role of academic libraries in teaching, learning, and research , Editor Lawrence Dowler,MIT Press , 1997,ISBN 978-0-262-04159-1 Ginsparg, P. (2006)."As We May Read" .Journal of Neuroscience .26 (38):9606– 9608.doi :10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3161-06.2006 .PMC 6674456 PMID 16988030 . Ginsparg, P.; Houle, P.; Joachims, T.; Sul, J. (2004)."Mapping subsets of scholarly information" .Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .101 (Suppl 1):5236– 5240.arXiv :cs/0312018 Bibcode :2004PNAS..101.5236G .doi :10.1073/pnas.0308253100 PMC 387301 PMID 14766973 . Bachrach, S.; Berry, R.; Blume, M.; Von Foerster, T.; Fowler, A.; Ginsparg, P.; Heller, S.; Kestner, N.; Odlyzko, A.; Okerson, A.; Wigington, R.; Moffat, A. (1998). "Who should own scientific papers?".Science .281 (5382):1459– 1460.Bibcode :1998Sci...281.1459B .doi :10.1126/science.281.5382.1459 .PMID 9750115 .S2CID 36290551 . Freedman, D.; Ginsparg, P.; Sommerfield, C.; Warner, N. (1987). "String-ghost interactions and the trace anomaly".Physical Review D .36 (6):1800– 1818.Bibcode :1987PhRvD..36.1800F .doi :10.1103/physrevd.36.1800 .PMID 9958364 . Ginsparg, P. (1987). "On toroidal compactification of heterotic superstrings".Physical Review D .35 (2):648– 654.Bibcode :1987PhRvD..35..648G .doi :10.1103/physrevd.35.648 .PMID 9957701 . ^a b Ginsparg, Paul (2011). "It was twenty years ago today.".arXiv :1108.2700v1 cs.DL ]. ^ Ginsparg, P. (2011)."ArXiv at 20" .Nature .476 (7359):145– 147.Bibcode :2011Natur.476..145G .doi :10.1038/476145a PMID 21833066 .S2CID 4421407 . ^ "Literature in Focus: Paul Ginsparg" .Cern Bulletin . CERN Document Server. 2008.^a b "Quick Study: Paul Ginsparg '77, JF '81, RI '09" . Archived fromthe original on 4 July 2010.^ "Paul Ginsparg - Cornell Department of Physics - Faculty Listing" .^ William Speed Weed (13 Oct 2002)."Phony Science: Questions for Paul Ginsparg" .The New York Times . ^ Paul Ginsparg (1 October 2008). "The global-village pioneers".Learned Publishing .22 (2):95– 100.Bibcode :2008PhyW...21j..22G .doi :10.1087/2009203 . ^ Is Eternal Vigilance the Price of Freedom? (or Revenge of the Global Village Idiots) , a forthcoming invited address by Ginsparg atWikimania 2006 ,Cambridge, MA , August 4–6, 2006. NOTE: talk was cancelled due to controversial content.^ Read as We May [permanent dead link ^ Next-Generation Implications of Open Access Archived 2018-02-08 at theWayback Machine for CTWatch Quarterly issue on "The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure", Aug 2007^ Next-Generation Implications of Open Access video for a talk at the "Science in the 21st Century conference" atPerimeter Institute , Sep 9, 2008, 11:00-12:00AM.^ "Paul Ginsparg Receives Award" . Physics Mathematics Astronomy Division of SLA. Archived fromthe original on 21 July 2010.^ Bill Steele (23 September 2002)."Cornell professor Paul Ginsparg, science communication rebel, named a MacArthur Foundation fellow; three other alumni also receive 'genius award' fellowships" . ^ "arXiv Founder Paul Ginsparg Receives Paul Evan Peters Award from CNI, ARL, and EDUCAUSE" . 27 February 2006. Archived fromthe original on 3 March 2012.^ Champion of Change ^ "White House honors Ginsparg for arXiv" . 19 June 2013.^ "Individual Award 2021" . Archived fromthe original on 2022-09-27. Retrieved2021-11-26 .
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