Burt Ovrut

Burt Ovrut
Nationality	American
Fields	Theoretical physics Superstring Theory
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Alma mater	University of Chicago (Ph.D.)
Known for	String theory M-theory Heterotic string theory

Burt Ovrut is an American Theoretical Physicist most famous for his work on heterotic string theory. He is currently Professor of Theoretical High Energy Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Burt Ovrut earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Chicago in 1978. His doctoral advisors were Benjamin W. Lee and Yoichiro Nambu, and his thesis was on an Sp(4) x U(1) Theory of the Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions.

He is one of those who pioneered the use of M-theory to explain the Big bang without the presence of a singularity. Recently Burt Ovrut and his collaborators constructed a Calabi-Yau compactification that reproduces the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model without any exotics.

External links

• Professor Burt Ovrut University of Pennsylvania Home Page
• A discussion of Burt Ovrut's recent work that reproduces the MSSM
• Membrane Theory

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