Draft:List of string theorists

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Declined by RoboCric 13 months ago. Last edited by Liz 35 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Comment: Fails WP:NLIST. Please add some reliable sources which discusses and collects the list in a group, and add some explanatory text or context in the lead (per WP:NOTDB). RoboCric (talk) 07:37, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

This is a chronological list of string theorists, by their date of birth; for lists of theorists by nationality, see the category.


Name	Born	Died	Notes
Yoichiro Nambu	1921	2015	Nobel Prize in Physics
Leonard Susskind	1940
David Gross	1941		Nobel Prize in Physics
John Henry Schwarz	1941
Holger Bech Nielsen	1941
Gabriele Veneziano	1942
Michael Green	1946
Joël Scherk	1946	1980
Michio Kaku	1947
Michael Duff	1949
Sylvester James Gates	1950
Edward Witten	1951
Michael Dine	1953
Joseph Polchinski	1954	2018
Barton Zwiebach	1954
Robbert Dijkgraaf	1960
Cumrun Vafa	1960
Krzysztof Antoni Meissner	1961
Michael R. Douglas	1961
Lisa Randall	1962
Brian Greene	1963
Petr Hořava	1963
Juan Maldacena	1968
A. W. Peet	1968
Nima Arkani-Hamed	1972
Luboš Motl	1973