Robert Leigh

Robert Leigh

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birth_date = 1964
birth_place = Canada
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fields = particle physics
workplaces = University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
alma_mater = University of Guelph
University of Texas at Austin
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Robert Leigh (born 1964 in Canada) is a physicist working on string theory. His contributions to theoretical physics include D-branes and the discovery, with Matthew Strassler, of conformal field theories in dimensions higher than two.

He obtained his B.Sc. degree from the University of Guelph in 1986, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991, working with Joe Polchinski. After postdoctoral positions at Santa Cruz and Rutgers, he has been a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1996.

External links

*http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/People/Leigh/index.htm


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