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Green, M. (Michael B.)
Oral history interview with Michael Green, 2021 March 22.
Interview with Michael Green, Lucasian Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University and visiting professor at Queen Mary University. He recounts his childhood in London as the child of secular Jewish parents who immigrated to London just before World War II. Green discusses his early interests in physics and the opportunities that led to his enrollment at Cambridge, and he conveys Geoff Chews influence with his ideas on S-matrix and bootstrap theory, which informed his thesis research on hadronic interactions. He narrates the founding ideas that led to string theory and how the work on dual models became transformed into string theory. Green describes his postdoctoral work at the Institute for Advanced Study and his interactions with Veneziano. He explains his decision to return to Cambridge and the importance of the CERN theory group for his research, and he narrates the origins of his collaborations with John Schwarz. Green connects string theory to the ideas that led to supergravity, and he explains why he does not like the term revolution in relation to advances in string theory to explain what was happening between 1981-1984. He explains the meaning of the pronoun super in relation to string theory, and he conveys his disappointment that supersymmetry has yet to be observed. Green describes the importance of AdS/CFT and his contributions to the origins of D-branes with Joe Polchinski. He discusses his increasing reliance on computers for understanding aspects of AdS/CFT correspondence. Green reflects on winning the Breakthrough Prize, and the supposed aspirational recognition on working to unify the forces which are not yet unified, and he discusses the generational de-coupling of string theory education from particle physics. He provides sociological perspective in response to the impatience that certain physicists have expressed regarding string theory. At the end of the interview, Green ponders the future relationship between string theory and quantum computing, and he describes the field as an intellectual adventure which makes it difficult to predict the significance of these changes.
Michael Green is Lucasian Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University and visiting professor at Queen Mary University in London. Green completed his graduate studies at Cambridge and conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is known as being a pioneer of string theory.
Chew, Geoffrey F.
Glashow, Sheldon L.
Green, M. (Michael B.)
Polchinski, Joseph Gerard
Schwarz, John H.
Veneziano, G. (Gabriele)
Witten, E.
Aspen Center for Physics
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
University of Cambridge
University of London. Queen Mary
D-branes.
Hadrons.
Quantum computing.
S-matrix theory
Standard model (Nuclear physics)
String models.
Supergravity
Superstring theories.
Supersymmetry
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Zierler, David, 1979- interviewer.
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