Gary Horowitz

Gary T. Horowitz (born April 14, 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory and quantum gravity.[2] In 1985 Horowitz published an influential paper with Philip Candelas, Andrew Strominger and Edward Witten on the compactification of superstrings in Calabi-Yau spaces.[3] In the early 1990s, Horowitz and Strominger found black brane solutions in string theory.[4] Horowitz also works on the AdS/CFT correspondence and (together with Sean Hartnoll and Chris Herzog) discovered holographic superconductors.[5] In 1982 Horowitz and M. Perry won first prize in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition.
Washington, D.C.string theoryquantum gravityPrinceton UniversityUniversity of ChicagoRobert GerochUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraOxford UniversityInstitute for Advanced StudyAndrew StromingerJoseph PolchinskiCumrun VafaPhilip CandelasEdward WittenAdS/CFT correspondencesuperconductorsFellow of the American Physical SocietyNational Academy of SciencesFellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesBibcodeHubeny, Veronika E.Physical Review D