Juan Maldacena

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human physicist string theorist theoretical physicist

Juan Maldacena is an Argentine theoretical physicist renowned for his groundbreaking work in string theory and quantum gravity, particularly for formulating the AdS/CFT correspondence that links gravity in anti-de Sitter space to conformal field theories.

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Label	Occurrences
Juan Maldacena canonical	4
Juan Martín Maldacena	1

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Target entity: Juan Maldacena
Context triple: [AdS/CFT correspondence, introducedBy, Juan Maldacena]

A. Edward Witten
Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in string theory, quantum gravity, and related areas of mathematical physics.
B. David Gross
David Gross is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his co-discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.
C. Howard Georgi
Howard Georgi is an American theoretical physicist best known for his pioneering work on grand unified theories and for mentoring generations of influential particle physicists.
D. Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob Bekenstein was an Israeli-American theoretical physicist best known for pioneering the concept of black hole entropy and contributing fundamentally to black hole thermodynamics.
E. Paul Steinhardt
Paul Steinhardt is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist known for his work on inflationary cosmology, the cyclic model of the universe, and the theoretical prediction of quasicrystals.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: Juan Maldacena
Target entity description: Juan Maldacena is an Argentine theoretical physicist renowned for his groundbreaking work in string theory and quantum gravity, particularly for formulating the AdS/CFT correspondence that links gravity in anti-de Sitter space to conformal field theories.

A. Edward Witten
Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in string theory, quantum gravity, and related areas of mathematical physics.
B. David Gross
David Gross is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his co-discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.
C. Howard Georgi
Howard Georgi is an American theoretical physicist best known for his pioneering work on grand unified theories and for mentoring generations of influential particle physicists.
D. Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob Bekenstein was an Israeli-American theoretical physicist best known for pioneering the concept of black hole entropy and contributing fundamentally to black hole thermodynamics.
E. Paul Steinhardt
Paul Steinhardt is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist known for his work on inflationary cosmology, the cyclic model of the universe, and the theoretical prediction of quasicrystals.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ physicist ⓘ string theorist ⓘ theoretical physicist ⓘ
academicAdvisor	Curtis Callan ⓘ
awardReceived	Dirac Prize ⓘ surface form: Dirac Medal Fundamental Physics Prize ⓘ Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics ⓘ surface form: Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics ICTP Dirac Medal and Prize ⓘ surface form: ICTP Dirac Medal J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics ⓘ surface form: J. J. Sakurai Prize Diamond Konex Award ⓘ surface form: Konex Award Lorentz Medal ⓘ MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Argentina ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1968-09-10 ⓘ
doctoralThesisTitle	Black holes in string theory ⓘ
doctoralThesisYear	1996 ⓘ
educatedAt	Balseiro Institute ⓘ surface form: Instituto Balseiro Princeton University ⓘ
employer	Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ
familyName	Maldacena ⓘ
fieldOfWork	high-energy physics ⓘ quantum gravity ⓘ string theory ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
givenName	Juan ⓘ
hasResearchInterest	anti-de Sitter space ⓘ surface form: AdS space black holes ⓘ conformal field theory ⓘ holographic duality ⓘ quantum field theory ⓘ
influenced	research in string theory ⓘ
influencedBy	Edward Witten ⓘ
knownFor	contributions to quantum gravity ⓘ formulating the AdS/CFT correspondence ⓘ work on holographic principle ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
name	Juan Maldacena self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Juan Martín Maldacena
notableWork	AdS/CFT correspondence ⓘ AdS/CFT correspondence ⓘ surface form: gauge/gravity duality
placeOfBirth	Buenos Aires ⓘ
positionHeld	Professor at Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ
workplace	Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ surface form: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

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AdS/CFT correspondence → introducedBy → Juan Maldacena ⓘ

Fundamental Physics Prize → notableRecipient → Juan Maldacena ⓘ

Juan Maldacena → name → Juan Maldacena self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Juan Martín Maldacena

Pomeranchuk Prize → hasNotableLaureate → Juan Maldacena ⓘ

Leonard Susskind → hasCollaboratedWith → Juan Maldacena ⓘ

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