List of quantum gravity researchers
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This is a list of (some of) the 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 in loop quantum gravity (a term originally introduced by Wheeler).
- 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.
- Fay Dowker: Physicist working on causal sets as well as the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
- 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.
- Herman Nikolai: Physicist who works on quantum gravity and investigates Kac-Moody algebras as a candidate symmetry for supergravity theories and M-theory.
- 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.
- Frank J. Tipler: Mathematical physicist who maintains in a 2005 paper[1] published in Reports on Progress in Physics that the correct quantum gravity theory has existed since 1962, first discovered by Richard Feynman in that year, and independently discovered by others. Intrinsic to this theory of quantum gravity are certain boundary conditions, which includes an Omega Point final cosmological singularity.
- 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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- ^ F. J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers," Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (April 2005), pp. 897-964. See also here. Also released as "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything," arXiv:0704.3276, April 24, 2007.
