Chris Hull

Chris Hull
FRS FInstP
Born
Christopher Michael Hull

1957 (age 66–67)[2]
EducationHaberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
AwardsDirac Medal (IOP) (2003)
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2002)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsImperial College London
ThesisThe structure and stability of the vacua of supergravity (1983)
Doctoral advisorGary Gibbons[1]
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/c.hull

Christopher Michael Hull (born 1957)[2] FRS FInstP[3] is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London.[4] Hull is known for his work on string theory, M-theory, and generalized complex structures.[5] Edward Witten drew partially from Hull's work for his development of M-theory.[6]

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  2. ^ a b Anon (2007). "Hull, Prof. Christopher Michael". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.256675. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Anon (2012). "Professor Christopher Hull FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

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  4. ^ "Home - Professor Chris Hull FRS". www.imperial.ac.uk.
  5. ^ Imperial College London, publications of Professor Chris Hull, 2010-04-04. "PUBLICATIONS-c.hull". Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
  6. ^ Edward Witten, in a radio interview in "Vetandets värld" on Swedish public radio, 2008-06-06. "Ett universum av strängarMöt ed Witten, ledande strängteoretiker - webbradio - sr.se". Archived from the original on 23 April 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2010.