Brian Greene life and biography

Brian Randolph Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi-Yau manifolds (concretely, relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds).

He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point. He has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Hidden Reality, and a related PBS television special. Greene also appeared on The Big Bang Theory episode "The Herb Garden Germination."

Greene gained popular exposure and recognition for his narration of the NOVA miniseries based on his 1999 book The Elegant Universe. Harvard graduate and Oxford Rhodes Scholar, Greene credits his father Alan (who himself did not graduate high school) for teaching him to view the world from new perspectives. The resultant understanding, that things are not as we assume them to be, led to a growing quest to understand the nature of reality, which in turn led him to mathematics and physics. Finally in 1984 -- in response to new theories put forth by John Schwarz and Michael Green -- he immersed himself in string theory, the so-called Final Theory or Theory of Everything. Much of his research has focused on the physical implications and mathematical properties of the extra dimensions postulated by the M-theory.

In 1990, after receiving his doctorate from Oxford University, Green joined the physics faculty at Cornell University. He was appointed a full professor in 1995. In 1996 he joined Columbia University where he is currently a professor and co-director of ISCAP (Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics). He has lectured in more than 25 countries, and has also made appearances on such programs as The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, The Century with Peter Jennings, CNN and Time, The Charlie Rose Show, Nightline in Primetime, and The Conan O'Brien Show.

A member of edge.org, Green has published numerous articles on superstring theory and related topics in scientific journals. In 2000 he received the Aventis Prizes for Science Books for The Elegant Universe. His second book The Fabric of the Cosmos was released in 2004.

In May 2013, the Science Laureates of the United States Act of 2013 (H.R. 1891; 113th Congress) was introduced into Congress. Brian Greene was listed by one commentator as a possible nominee for the position of Science Laureate, if the act were to pass.

In March 2015, an Australian spider that uses waves to hunt prey, Dolomedes briangreenei, was to be named in honor of Brian Greene.

He was interviewed at length by Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC radio program The Life Scientific on 28 April 2020.

Here's a list of Brian Greene's books:

1999: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.
2005: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality.
2008: Icarus at the Edge of Time.
2011: The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos.
2016: Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein
2020: Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

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