Paul Steinhardt

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American scientist cosmologist human theoretical physicist

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.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American scientist → cosmologist → human → theoretical physicist →
affiliation	Princeton Center for Theoretical Science →
authorOf	Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang →
awardReceived	Dirac Medal of the ICTP → Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize →
coAuthor	Dmitri Khmelnitskii → Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang → Luca Bindi → Neil Turok → Zhong-Ying Wang →
collaboratedWith	Luca Bindi on quasicrystals →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
criticized	eternal inflation → multiverse interpretations of inflation →
discovered	natural quasicrystals in meteorites →
doctoralAdvisor	Steven Weinberg →
educatedAt	Caltech → Harvard University →
employer	Princeton University →
fieldOfWork	condensed matter physics → cosmology → theoretical physics →
givenName	Paul →
hasAcademicAdvisor	Steven Weinberg →
knownFor	critique of eternal inflation → cyclic model of the universe → ekpyrotic universe model → inflationary cosmology → theoretical prediction of quasicrystals → work on dark energy models →
languageSpoken	English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America →
name	Paul Steinhardt →
notableWork	Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang →
occupation	university professor →
positionHeld	Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University →
researchInterest	dark energy → early universe cosmology → inflation alternatives → phase transitions in the early universe → quasicrystals →
theorized	cyclic ekpyrotic cosmological model → quintessence dark energy model →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
James M. Bardeen →	coAuthor
eternal inflation →	developedBy
Alan Guth →	influenced
Paul Steinhardt →	name