Joseph Polchinski

Research.com Recognitions

• 2017 - Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics For transformative advances in quantum field theory, string theory, and quantum gravity.
• 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2007 - Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics
• 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1997 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his major contributions to the understanding of quantum field theory, supersymmetry and string theory
• 1985 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Dirichlet Branes and Ramond-Ramond charges.

  Joseph Polchinski

  4894
  Citations

• Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications

  Steven B. Giddings;Shamit Kachru;Shamit Kachru;Joseph Polchinski

  2430
  Citations

• String theory. Vol. 2: Superstring theory and beyond

  Joseph Polchinski

  2076
  Citations

• Hidden symmetries of the AdS(5) x S**5 superstring

  Iosif Bena;Joseph Polchinski;Radu Roiban

  1992
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• Quantization of four-form fluxes and dynamical neutralization of the cosmological constant

  Raphael Bousso;Joseph Polchinski

  1761
  Citations

• Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?

  Ahmed Almheiri;Donald Marolf;Joseph Polchinski;James Sully

  1625
  Citations

• String theory. Vol. 1: An introduction to the bosonic string

  J. Polchinski

  1505
  Citations

• Minimal Low-Energy Supergravity

  Luis Alvarez-Gaumé;J. Polchinski;Mark B. Wise

  1493
  Citations

• New Connections Between String Theories

  J Dai;Joseph Polchinski;Robert G Leigh

  1214
  Citations

• Hard scattering and gauge/string duality.

  Joseph Polchinski;Matthew J. Strassler

  1124
  Citations

• Models of AdS2 backreaction and holography

  Ahmed Almheiri;Ahmed Almheiri;Joseph Polchinski

  1102
  Citations

• Tasi lectures on D-branes

  Joseph Polchinski

  1049
  Citations

• Evidence for heterotic - type I string duality

  Joseph Polchinski;Edward Witten

  1048
  Citations

• Consistency conditions for orientifolds and d manifolds

  Eric G. Gimon;Joseph Polchinski

  1046
  Citations

• The String dual of a confining four-dimensional gauge theory

  Joseph Polchinski;Matthew J. Strassler

  916
  Citations

• Holography from Conformal Field Theory

  Idse Heemskerk;João Miguel Penedones;Joseph Polchinski;James Sully

  840
  Citations

• Evaluation of the one loop string path integral

  Joseph Polchinski

  812
  Citations

• The Spectrum in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

  Joseph Polchinski;Vladimir Rosenhaus

  751
  Citations

• Black Holes and Random Matrices

  Jordan S. Cotler;Guy Gur-Ari;Masanori Hanada;Masanori Hanada;Masanori Hanada;Joseph Polchinski;Joseph Polchinski

  567
  Citations

• An introduction to the bosonic string

  Joseph Gerard Polchinski

  313
  Citations