Chris Hull | |
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Born | Christopher Michael Hull 1957 (age 66–67) [2] |
Education | Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
Awards |
Dirac Medal (IOP) (2003) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | Imperial College London |
Thesis | The structure and stability of the vacua of supergravity (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Gary Gibbons [1] |
Website |
imperial |
Christopher Michael Hull (born 1957) [2] FRS FInstP [3] is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London. [4] Hull is known for his work on string theory, M-theory, and generalized complex structures. [5] Edward Witten drew partially from Hull's work for his development of M-theory. [6]
Hull was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School [2] and the University of Cambridge where he was a student of King's College, Cambridge and awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1979 followed by a PhD in 1983 for research supervised by Gary Gibbons. [1] [7]
Hull conducts research into quantum gravity, a field that aims to discover a unifying theory of quantum theory and general relativity. [3] His particular contributions have been made to superstring theory, which models particles and forces as vibrations of 'supersymmetric strings', and supergravity, which combines supersymmetry with general relativity. [3]
Many mathematical challenges facing quantum gravity are being met through Hull's efforts to bring in, and extend, techniques from geometry and field theory. [3] His work laid the foundations of M-theory, which brings together apparently competing theories. [3] Overall success in quantum gravity would revolutionise our understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and the origins of, and evolution, of our Universe. [3]
He leads a major research programme in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, with investigations that include extended geometries, flux geometries and holographic structures. [3]
Hull was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2002 and the Paul Dirac Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics in 2003. He was awarded a Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) Advanced Research fellowship in 1987[ citation needed] and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Senior Research Fellowship in 1996.[ citation needed] He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP). [8]
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Chris Hull | |
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Born | Christopher Michael Hull 1957 (age 66–67) [2] |
Education | Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
Awards |
Dirac Medal (IOP) (2003) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | Imperial College London |
Thesis | The structure and stability of the vacua of supergravity (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Gary Gibbons [1] |
Website |
imperial |
Christopher Michael Hull (born 1957) [2] FRS FInstP [3] is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London. [4] Hull is known for his work on string theory, M-theory, and generalized complex structures. [5] Edward Witten drew partially from Hull's work for his development of M-theory. [6]
Hull was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School [2] and the University of Cambridge where he was a student of King's College, Cambridge and awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1979 followed by a PhD in 1983 for research supervised by Gary Gibbons. [1] [7]
Hull conducts research into quantum gravity, a field that aims to discover a unifying theory of quantum theory and general relativity. [3] His particular contributions have been made to superstring theory, which models particles and forces as vibrations of 'supersymmetric strings', and supergravity, which combines supersymmetry with general relativity. [3]
Many mathematical challenges facing quantum gravity are being met through Hull's efforts to bring in, and extend, techniques from geometry and field theory. [3] His work laid the foundations of M-theory, which brings together apparently competing theories. [3] Overall success in quantum gravity would revolutionise our understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and the origins of, and evolution, of our Universe. [3]
He leads a major research programme in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, with investigations that include extended geometries, flux geometries and holographic structures. [3]
Hull was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2002 and the Paul Dirac Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics in 2003. He was awarded a Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) Advanced Research fellowship in 1987[ citation needed] and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Senior Research Fellowship in 1996.[ citation needed] He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP). [8]
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” -- Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
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text available under the
CC BY 4.0 license.