Nathan Seiberg

Not to be confused with Atle Selberg.
Nathan Seiberg

Nathan Seiberg at Harvard University
Born (1956-09-22) September 22, 1956
Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality Israeli American
Fields Theoretical physics
Institutions Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel-Aviv University
Doctoral advisor Haim Harari
Doctoral students Shiraz Minwalla
Known for Seiberg–Witten invariant
Seiberg duality
Notable awards MacArthur Fellow(1996)
Heineman Prize (1998)
Fundamental Physics Prize (2012)
Dirac Medal (2016)

Nathan "Nati" Seiberg (/ˈsbərɡ/; born September 22, 1956) is an Israeli American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Research

His contributions to mathematical physics include:

Honors and awards

He was recipient of a 1996 MacArthur Fellowship[1] and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1998.[2] In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Fundamental Physics Prize, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner.[3] In 2016, he was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP.

See also

References

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