Joe Polchinski in Santa Barbara

Joseph Polchinski (born on May 16, 1954 in White Plains, New York) is a physicist working on string theory. He graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1971, obtained his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1975, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. After postdoctoral positions at SLAC (1980-82) and Harvard (1982-84) he was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 to 1992. Since 1992 he has been a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara. Among his contributions to theoretical physics, D-branes are the best known. ImageMetadata File history File links JoePolchinskiSB.JPG Summary I took the picture and declare it public domain. ... ImageMetadata File history File links JoePolchinskiSB.JPG Summary I took the picture and declare it public domain. ... is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other places with the same name, see White Plains (disambiguation). ... This article is about the state. ... Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... Interaction in the subatomic world: world lines of pointlike particles in the Standard Model or a world sheet swept up by closed strings in string theory String theory is a model of fundamental physics, whose building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects called strings, rather than the zero-dimensional point... Canyon del Oro High School Canyon del Oro High School (CDO) is a public high school, located in Oro Valley, Arizona. ... California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is a U.S. national laboratory operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... University of Texas redirects here. ... The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. It is one out of 10 campuses of the University of California. ... KITP at night The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) is an institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara. ... In theoretical physics, D-branes are a special class of p-branes, named for the physicist Johann Dirichlet. ...

Joe Polchinski is also the author of two volumes of the famous textbook called simply "String Theory" although he calls it "Joe's Big Book of String".

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he has a son who is a DP wrestler. Go Chargers! (AKA) Personal website