Пол Генсперг: Американ физигі және arXiv архивінің авторы

American physicist

Paul Henry Ginsparg (born January 1, 1955) is an American physicist. He developed the arXiv. org e print archive.

He is a graduate of Syosset High School in Syosset, New York, on Long Island. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and from Cornell University with a Ph. D. in theoretical particle physics with a thesis titled Aspects of Symmetry Behavior in Quantum Field Theory.

Ginsparg was a junior fellow and taught in the physics department at Harvard University until 1990. The pre print archive was developed while he was a member of staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990–2001. Since 2001, Ginsparg has been a professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University. He has published physics papers in the areas of quantum field theory, string theory, conformal field theory, and quantum gravity. He often comments on the changing world of physics in the Information Age.

He has been awarded the P. A. M. (Physics Astronomy Math) Award from the Special Libraries Association, named a Lingua Franca "Tech 20", elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, received the Council of Science Editors Award for Meritorious Achievement, and received the Paul Evans Peters Award from Educause, ARL, and CNI. He was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2008–2009. in June 2013. He was awarded with Einstein Foundation Award in 2021 for creating the arXiv. org.

He has two children a daughter, Miryam Ginsparg (b. 2000), and a son, Noam Ginsparg (b. 2004). His wife is Laura Jones, a mathematical biologist and researcher.