Leonard Susskind

Felix Bloch Professor of Physics

Director, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP)

Room 332
Varian Physics Bldg
382 Via Pueblo Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-4060

tel 650-723-2686
fax 650-723-9389
susskind@stanford.edu

Research Interests

Current research is involved with the following topics: models of internal structure of hadrons, gauge theories, quark confinement, symmetry breaking, instantons, quantum statistical mechanics, baryon production in the universe, model for fermion masses, gravity in lower dimensions and quantum cosmology.

Career History

B.S., 1962, City College of New York
Ph.D., 1965, Cornell University
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, 1965-66
Assistant Professor of Physics, Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University, 1966-68
Associate Professor of Physics, Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University 1968-70
Professor of Physics, University of Tel Aviv, 1971-72
Professor of Physics, Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University 1970-79
Professor of Physics, Stanford University, 1979-present
Pregel Award, New York Academy of Science, 1975
Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University, 1976
J.J. Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Particle Physics, 1997
Felix Bloch Professorship in Physics, 2000-present
Director, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2009-present

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