Brian Randolph Greene was born on February 9,1962 and is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician.
22 Facts About Brian Greene
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Brian Greene described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point.
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Brian Greene has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Hidden Reality, and related PBS television specials.
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Brian Greene appeared on The Big Bang Theory episode "The Herb Garden Germination", as well as the films Frequency and The Last Mimzy.
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Brian Greene is currently a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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Brian Greene was born in New York City of Jewish background.
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Brian Greene's father, Alan Greene, was a one-time vaudeville performer and high school dropout who later worked as a voice coach and composer.
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Brian Greene joined the physics faculty of Cornell University in 1990 and was appointed to a full professorship in 1995.
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At Columbia, Brian Greene is co-director of the university's Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics and is leading a research program applying superstring theory to cosmological questions.
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Brian Greene is known for his contribution to the understanding of the different shapes the curled-up dimensions of string theory can take.
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In 2008, together with Tracy Day, Brian Greene co-founded the World Science Festival, whose mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
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Brian Greene is well known to a wider audience for his work on popularizing theoretical physics, in particular string theory and the search for a unified theory of physics.
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Brian Greene's first book, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, published in 1999, is a popularization of superstring theory and M-theory.
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The Elegant Universe was later made into a PBS television special of the same name, hosted and narrated by Brian Greene, which won a 2003 Peabody Award.
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Brian Greene was a consultant on the 2006 time-travel movie Deja Vu.
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Brian Greene had a cameo appearance as an Intel scientist in 2007's The Last Mimzy.
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Brian Greene was mentioned in the 2002 Angel episode "Supersymmetry" and in the 2008 Stargate Atlantis episode "Trio".
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Brian Greene has lectured outside of the collegiate setting, at both a general and a technical level, in more than twenty-five countries.
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Brian Greene was listed by one commentator as a possible nominee for the position of Science Laureate, if the act were to pass.
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Brian Greene was interviewed at length by Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC radio program The Life Scientific on 28 April 2020.
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Brian Greene has been vegetarian since he was nine years old and a vegan since 1997.
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Brian Greene has stated that he regards science as being incompatible with literalist interpretations of religion and that there is much in the New Atheism movement which resonates with him because he personally does not feel the need for religious explanation.