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    Stephen Shenker

    Stephen Hart Shenker (born 1953) is an American


    theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is Stephen Shenker
    a professor at Stanford University and former director
    of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His
    brother Scott Shenker is a computer scientist.

    Work
    Shenker's contributions to physics include:

    Basic results on the phase structure of gauge Born 1953[1]


    theories (with Eduardo Fradkin) Nationality American
    Basic results on two dimensional conformal
    Alma mater Harvard University (B.A.)
    field theory and its relation to string theory
    (with Daniel Friedan, Emil Martinec, Zongan Cornell University (Ph.D.)
    Qiu, and others) Known for string theory
    The nonperturbative formulation of matrix phase transitions
    models of low-dimensional string theory, the
    Awards MacArthur Fellowship
    first nonperturbative definitions of string theory
    (with Michael R. Douglas) American Academy of Arts
    The discovery of distinctively stringy and Sciences
    nonperturbative effects in string theory, later Lars Onsager Prize (2010)
    understood to be caused by D-branes. These National Academy of
    effects play a major role in string dynamics Sciences
    The discovery of Matrix Theory, the first Dirac Medal (2023)
    nonperturbative definition of String/M theory in
    a physical number of dimensions. Matrix Scientific career
    Theory (see Matrix string theory) is an Fields theoretical physics
    example of a gauge/gravity duality and is now
    understood to be a special case of the Institutions Stanford University
    AdS/CFT correspondence (with Tom Banks, Rutgers University
    Willy Fischler and Leonard Susskind) University of Chicago
    Basic results on the connection between Doctoral John Kogut
    quantum gravity and quantum chaos (with advisor
    Douglas Stanford, Juan Maldacena and
    others) Doctoral Joanne Cohn
    students Matthew Kleban

    Selected works
    Fidkowski, Lukasz; Hubeny, Veronika; Kleban, Matthew; Shenker, Stephen (6 February
    2004). "The Black Hole Singularity in AdS/CFT". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2004 (2):
    014. arXiv:hep-th/0306170 (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306170).
    Bibcode:2004JHEP...02..014F (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004JHEP...02..014F).
    doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/02/014 (https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1126-6708%2F2004%2F0
    2%2F014). S2CID 119363210 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:119363210).

    References
    1. LCCN: Shenker, Stephen Hart (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010175204.html)

    External links
    home page of Stephen Shenker at Stanford (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/fa
    culty/shenker_stephen.html)
    home page of Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (http://sitp.stanford.edu)
    [1] (https://www.ictp.it/home/dirac-medallists-2023)

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