Physics: Juan Maldacena

Physics: Juan Maldacena
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Juan Maldacena (1968) Juan Martín Maldacena (Latin American Spanish: [maldaˈsena]; born 10 September 1968) is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P.

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Juan Maldacena (1968) Juan Martín Maldacena (Latin American Spanish: [maldaˈsena]; born 10 September 1968) is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P. Why is Juan Maldacena remembered? Every major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. Juan Maldacena was one of those people. About Juan Maldacena Juan Martín Maldacena (Latin American Spanish: [maldaˈsena]; born 10 September 1968) is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has made significant contributions to the foundations of string theory and quantum gravity. His most famous discovery is the AdS/CFT correspondence, a realization of the holographic principle in string theory.