Michael Green (physicist)

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Michael Boris Green (born 22 May 1946) is a physicist and one of the pioneers of string theory.

After many years in collaboration with John H. Schwarz, they discovered the anomaly cancellation in type I string theory in 1984. This insight initiated the First Superstring Revolution. He has also worked on Dirichlet boundary conditions in string theory which led to the discovery of D-branes.

He is a professor of Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University in England. Michael Green graduated with a BA (1967) and a PhD (1970) from Cambridge University, UK, followed by periods as a postdoc at Princeton, Cambridge and Oxford. Between 1978-1993 he was a Lecturer and Professor at Queen Mary, University of London and in 1993 he was appointed John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University, where he remains to this day. Michael Green has been awarded the Dirac and Maxwell Medals of the Institute of Physics, UK, the Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste) and the Dannie Heinemann Prize of the American Physical Society

Green has an h-index of 44. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989.