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KITP at night

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) is an institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara. KITP in Santa Barbara at night File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... KITP in Santa Barbara at night File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 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 is one of the most renowned institutes for theoretical physics in the world. The institute was founded in 1979 by Nobel prize laureate Walter Kohn and, as of 2006, is directed by Nobel laureate David Gross. It is located on the ocean side of the UCSB campus in Kohn Hall, which was designed by the famous architect Michael Graves. Theoretical physics employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics, as opposed to experimental processes, in an attempt to understand nature. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ), as designated in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, are awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. ... The word laureate or laureated has came in English to signify eminent, or associated with glory, literary or military. ... A banner on a light pole in the University of California, Santa Barbara, commemorating that Walter Kohn won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is an American particle physicist and string theorist (although hes stated to the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, on 09/27/2006, that the second area is included in the first one). ... -1...

Former faculty members include Stephen Hawking, 1972 Physics Nobel Laureate Robert Schrieffer , 2004 Physics Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek, and Caltech astrophysicist Sean M. Carroll. Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. ... John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and winner, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. ... Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is a Nobel prize winning American physicist. ... 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. ... Sean M. Carroll is a senior research associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. ...

In the early 2000s, the institute, formerly known simply as the Institute for Theoretical Physics, or ITP, was named for the Norwegian-American physicist and businessman Fred Kavli, in recognition of his donation of $7.5 million to the Institute. Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... A businessman (sometimes businesswoman, female; or businessperson, gender neutral) is a generic term for a wide range of people engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company. ... Fred Kavli, b. ...

External links

• The KITP web site

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