Steven S. Gubser is a professor of physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

 at Princeton University

Princeton University

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. His research focuses on theoretical particle physics, especially string theory

String theory

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, and the AdS/CFT correspondence

AdS/CFT correspondence

In physics, the AdS/CFT correspondence , sometimes called the Maldacena duality, is the conjectured equivalence between a string theory and gravity defined on one space, and a quantum field theory without gravity defined on the conformal boundary of this space, whose dimension is lower by one or more...

. He is a widely cited scholar in these and other related areas.

After receiving a Ph.D. in 1998 from Princeton, Gubser did postdoctoral research at Harvard University

Harvard University

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 before taking a position as an assistant professor at Princeton. In 2001, he moved to the California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology

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 but returned again to Princeton in 2002.

As a high schooler, he was the first American to win the International Physics Olympiad

International Physics Olympiad

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, in 1989. He was also a silver medalist at the 1990 International Chemistry Olympiad

International Chemistry Olympiad

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Awards

• 2009 Guggenheim fellow
• Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society
  European Physical Society
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• Blavatnik Award of the New York Academy of Science
• 1994 LeRoy Apker Award
  LeRoy Apker Award (APS)
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   for outstanding undergraduate achievement from the American Physical Society
  American Physical Society
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External links

• Gubser's web page at Princeton
• "Drag force in AdS/CFT", Phys.Rev. D74:126005,2006