21 Facts About Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind is an American theoretical physicist, Professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Leonard Susskind is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.

Leonard Susskind was the first to give a precise string-theoretic interpretation of the holographic principle in 1995 and the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003.

Leonard Susskind was awarded the 1998 JJ Sakurai Prize, the 2018 Oskar Klein Medal, and the Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 2023.

Leonard Susskind was born to a Jewish family from the South Bronx in New York City.

Leonard Susskind began working as a plumber at the age of 16, taking over from his father who had become ill.

Leonard Susskind was an assistant professor of physics, then an associate professor at Yeshiva University, after which he went for a year to the Tel Aviv University, returning to Yeshiva to become a professor of physics.

In 2007, Leonard Susskind joined the faculty of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, as an associate member.

Leonard Susskind has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Leonard Susskind is a distinguished professor at Korea Institute for Advanced Study.

Leonard Susskind was one of at least three physicists, alongside Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, who independently discovered during or around 1970 that Gabriele Veneziano's dual resonance model of strong interactions could be described by a quantum mechanical model of oscillating strings, and was the first to propose the idea of the string theory landscape.

Leonard Susskind has made important contributions in the following areas of physics:.

Leonard Susskind explains that Weinberg calculated that if the cosmological constant was just a little different, our universe would cease to exist.

Leonard Susskind then published his theory in his book, The Black Hole War.

Leonard Susskind co-authored a series of companion books to his lecture series The Theoretical Minimum.

Leonard Susskind teaches a series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses about modern physics referred to as The Theoretical Minimum.

Leonard Susskind aims the courses at people with prior exposure to algebra, and calculus.

Leonard Susskind explains most of the mathematics used, which form the basis of the lectures.

Leonard Susskind gave 3 lectures "The Birth of the Universe and the Origin of Laws of Physics" April 28-May 1,2014 in the Cornell Messenger Lecture series which are posted on a Cornell website.

Smolin obliged, and on July 28,2004, Leonard Susskind responded, saying that the logic Smolin followed "can lead to ridiculous conclusions".

Leonard Susskind has been married twice, first in 1960, and he has four children.