Category:Joseph Polchinski

**Joseph Polchinski**
	physicist working on string theory (1954–2018)
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Name in native language	Joseph Polchinski;
Date of birth	16 May 1954; Hawthorne
Date of death	2 February 2018; Santa Barbara
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	brain cancer;
Country of citizenship	United States;
Residence	White Plains;
Educated at	California Institute of Technology; University of California, Berkeley; Canyon del Oro High School;
Doctoral advisor	Stanley Mandelstam;
Doctoral student	Ahmed Almheiri; Makoto Natsuume; Robert Graham Leigh; Mariana Graña;
Occupation	theoretical physicist; physicist; university teacher;
Employer	University of Texas at Austin; Harvard University; University of California, Santa Barbara;
Member of	American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences;
Field of work	theoretical physics; mathematical physics; superstring theory;
Award received	Physics Frontiers Prize (2013); Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2017); Fellow of the American Physical Society; Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2007); ICTP Dirac Medal (2008); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012);
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