Michael Duff | |
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| Born | Michael James Duff January 28, 1949[1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Queen Mary College, London (BSc) Imperial College London (PhD) |
| Known for | Coining the term "p-brane"[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics, supergravity, string theory, M-theory |
| Institutions | Imperial College London European Organization for Nuclear Research International Centre for Theoretical Physics Queen Mary College, London Texas A&M University University of Michigan |
| Doctoral advisor | Abdus Salam |
Michael James Duff FRS, FRSA is a British theoretical physicist and pioneering theorist of supergravity who is the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.
- ^ Curriculum Vitae[permanent dead link]
- ^ Duff, M.J.; Inami, T.; Pope, C.N.; Sezgin, E.; Stelle, K.S. (1988). "Semiclassical quantization of the supermembrane" (PDF). Nuclear Physics B. 297 (3): 515–538. Bibcode:1988NuPhB.297..515D. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(88)90316-1.