List of quantum gravity researchers
This is a list of (some of) the researchers in quantum gravity.
- Jan Ambjørn: Expert on dynamical triangulations who helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity.
- Giovanni Amelino-Camelia: Physicist who developed the idea of doubly special relativity, and founded Quantum-Gravity phenomenology.
- Abhay Ashtekar: Inventor of the Ashtekar variables, one of the founders of loop quantum gravity.
- John Baez: Mathematical physicist who introduced the notion of spin foam in loop quantum gravity (a term originally introduced by Wheeler).
- Julian Barbour: Philosopher and author of The End of Time, Absolute or Relative Motion?: The Discovery of Dynamics.
- John W. Barrett: Mathematical physicist who helped develop the Barrett–Crane model of quantum gravity.
- Martin Bojowald: Physicist who developed the application of loop quantum gravity to cosmology.
- Steve Carlip: Expert on 3-dimensional quantum gravity.
- Louis Crane: Mathematician who helped develop the Barrett–Crane model of quantum gravity.
- Fay Dowker: Physicist working on causal sets as well as the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
- David Finkelstein: Physicist who has contributed much quantum relativity and the logical foundations of QR.
- Rodolfo Gambini: Physicist who helped introduce loop quantum gravity; coauthor of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity.
- Gary Gibbons: Physicist who has done important work on black holes.
- Brian Greene: Physicist who is considered one of the world's foremost string theorists.
- James Hartle: Physicist who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe.
- Stephen Hawking: Leading physicist, expert on black holes and discoverer of Hawking radiation who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe.
- Christopher Isham: Physicist who focuses on conceptual problems in quantum gravity.
- Ted Jacobson: Physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity.
- Michio Kaku: Physicist one of the foremost leading String theorist and also known for the Popular Science.
- Renate Loll: Physicist who worked on loop quantum gravity and more recently helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity.
- Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara: Physicist who works on loop quantum gravity and spin network models that take causality into account.
- Roger Penrose: Mathematical physicist who invented spin networks and twistor theory.
- Jorge Pullin: Physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity, co-author of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity.
- Carlo Rovelli: One of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity.
- Lee Smolin: One of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity.
- Rafael Sorkin: Physicist, primary proponent of the causal set approach to quantum gravity.
- Andrew Strominger: Physicist who works on string theory.
- Leonard Susskind: Leading physicist, who is considered to be one of the three fathers of string theory.
- Frank J. Tipler: Mathematical physicist who incorporates quantum gravity into his ideas of a Judeo-Christian God.
- Bill Unruh: Canadian physicist engaged in the study of semiclassical gravity and responsible for the discovery of the so-called Unruh effect.
- Cumrun Vafa: Leading physicist, developer of F-theory, known for Vafa-Witten theorem and Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture.
- Robert Wald: Leading physicist in the field of quantum field theory in curved spacetime.
- Anzhong Wang: Physicist, major contributor to Horava-Lifshitz gravity; String theory and applications to cosmology.
- Edward Witten: Leading mathematical physicist, does research in string theory and M-theory.
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