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Steven Gubser | |
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| Born | Steven Scott Gubser (1972-05-04)May 4, 1972 Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | August 3, 2019(2019-08-03) (aged 47) |
| Education | Princeton University 1994, 1998 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (B.Sc, Ph.D.) Cambridge University |
| Known for | AdS/CFT correspondence AdS/QCD correspondence AdS/CMT correspondence |
| Spouse | Laura Landweber[1] |
| Children | 3[1] |
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| Doctoral advisor | Igor Klebanov |
Steven Scott Gubser (May 4, 1972 – August 3, 2019) was a professor ofphysics atPrinceton University.[2] His research focused on theoretical particle physics, especiallystring theory, and theAdS/CFT correspondence. He was a widely cited scholar in these and other related areas.[3]
Gubser did foundational work in theAdS/CFT correspondence as a graduate student. In particular, his 1998 paperGauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory with his advisorIgor Klebanov and another Princeton physics professorAlexander Markovich Polyakov, made a precise statement of theAdS/CFT duality. It is one of the all-time top cited papers in theoretical high-energy physics, and is commonly known, along withEdward Witten's 1998 workAnti De Sitter Space And Holography, as the GKPW dictionary. After receiving a Ph.D. in 1998 from Princeton, Gubser became ajunior fellow atHarvard University before taking a position as an assistant professor at Princeton. In 2001, he moved to theCalifornia Institute of Technology but returned to Princeton in 2002.[4] Gubser's later works concern various aspects of theAdS/CFT correspondence, including its applications inquantum chromodynamics andcondensed matter physics. In 2016 he and collaborators proposed ap-adic version ofAdS/CFT correspondence whose bulk geometry is a tree graph.
As a high school student in 1989, Gubser was the first American to be grand winner (ranked first among all gold medalists) of theInternational Physics Olympiad.[5][6] He graduated fromCherry Creek High School inGreenwood Village, Colorado.
He graduated as thevaledictorian of the class of 1994 from Princeton University. For his senior thesis he was awarded the LeRoy Apker Award of the American Physical Society, the highest distinction for undergraduate research.
Gubser died in a rock climbing accident inChamonix, France, on August 3, 2019.[7][8][1] Grubser was climbing Aiguille du Peigne "Comb Needle" on theMont Blanc massif, when a rope broke and he fell to his death.[9]
Gubser was married toLaura Landweber, and they had three daughters.[1][14]
