Memorial Page for Joseph Polchinski
May 16, 1954 – Feb 2, 2018(63 years)Died in:Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County
Physicist working on string theory
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Joseph Polchinski (* May 16, 1954 in Hawthorne; † February 2, 2018 in Santa Barbara) was a physicist working on string theory. He was 63 years old. His education included California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley and Canyon del Oro High School. He received 6 awards, including Physics Frontiers Prize, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. His cause of death was brain cancer.
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7 EventsBorn in Hawthorne, Westchester County
1954Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
2007ICTP Dirac Medal
2008Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2012Physics Frontiers Prize
2013Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
2017Died in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County (brain cancer)
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Joseph Polchinski. Forever remembered.