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class="body text-with-summary label-hidden">Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch professor of Theoretical physics at Stanford University. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.<br><br>Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory, having, with Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, independently introduced the idea that particles could in fact be states of excitation of a relativistic string. He was the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003.</div> </div> <div class="views-element-container block-views"> <h2 class="hs-well hb-text-align-center block__title">Publications</h2> <div><div class="hb-raised-cards hb-raised-cards--uniform-height js-view-dom-id-bc2f26cc80ac17ebc5feb032b3abb17f743710d5466df4bc5f18c96e0d91d65d"> <div class="hb-grid hb-grid--cols-2"> <div class="hb-grid__item"> <div class="hb-card hb-vertical-card"> <div class="hb-card__content"> <div class="hb-card__title"> <h3 class="no-dash masonry-item--title"><a href="/publications/world-hologram" hreflang="en">THE WORLD AS A HOLOGRAM</a></h3> </div> <div class="hb-card__description"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-hs-publication-citation"><div class="field-content hs-credits">Susskind, L. (1995). THE WORLD AS A HOLOGRAM. JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, 36(11), 6377–6396.</div></div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-hs-publication-year"><div class="field-content hb-heading-4">1995</div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="hb-three-column-w-image__sidebar-2 layout__region"> <div class="hb-well block-hs-blocks"> <h2 class="block__title">Contact</h2> <div class="block-layout-builder"> <div class="field-hs-person-links link label-above"> <div class="field-label">Info Links</div> <div> <div><a href="http://theoreticalminimum.com">The Theoretical Minimum lecture series</a></div> <div><a href="http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+AND+leonard+susskind/0/1/0/all/0/1">Publications on arXiv</a></div> <div><a href="http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=leonard%20susskind">Publications on INSPIRE</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block-layout-builder"> <div class="field-hs-person-external-profile link label-above"> <div 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