List of quantum gravity researchers
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This is a list of researchers in quantum gravity.
- Jan Ambjørn -- Expert on dynamical triangulations who helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity.
- Abhay Ashtekar -- Inventor of the Ashtekar variables, one of the founders of loop quantum gravity.
- John Baez -- Mathematical physicist who introduced the notion of spin foam.
- John Barrett -- Mathematical physicist who helped develop the Barrett-Crane model of quantum gravity.
- Julian Barbour -- Philosopher and author of The End of Time, Absolute or Relative Motion?: The Discovery of Dynamics.
- Martin Bojowald -- Physicist who developed the application of loop quantum gravity to cosmology.
- Steve Carlip -- Expert on 3-dimensional quantum gravity.
- Louis Crane -- Mathematician who helped develop the Barrett-Crane model of quantum gravity.
- David Finkelstein -- Physicist who has contributed much quantum relativity and the logical foundations of QR.
- Rodolfo Gambini -- Physicist who helped introduce loop quantum gravity; coauthor of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity.
- Gary Gibbons -- Physicist who has done important work on black holes.
- Brian Greene -- Physicist who is considered one of the world's foremost string theorists.
- James Hartle -- Physicist who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe.
- Stephen Hawking -- Leading physicist, expert on black holes and discoverer of Hawking radiation who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe.
- Christopher Isham -- Physicist who focuses on conceptual problems in quantum gravity.
- Ted Jacobson -- Physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity.
- Renate Loll -- Physicist who worked on loop quantum gravity and more recently helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity.
- Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara -- Physicist who works on loop quantum gravity and spin network models that take causality into account.
- Roger Penrose -- Mathematical physicist who invented spin networks and twistor theory.
- Jorge Pullin -- Physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity, coauthor of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity.
- Carlo Rovelli -- One of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity.
- Lee Smolin -- One of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity.
- Rafael Sorkin -- Physicist, primary proponent of the causal set approach to quantum gravity.
- Andrew Strominger -- Physicist who works on string theory.
- Thomas Thiemann -- Physicist who works on loop quantum gravity.
- Edward Witten -- Leading mathematical physicist, does research in string theory and M-theory.
- Richard Woodard -- Physicist, major contributor to canonical, perturbative, and finite infrared quantum gravity; applications to cosmology.
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