Brian Greene

Greene was born in New York City of Jewish background.Literature = art + science, February 12, 2009, Rebecca Abrams, JC His father, Alan Greene, was a one-time vaudeville performer and high school dropout who later worked as a voice coach and composer.

After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in 1980, where he was classmates with fellow physicist and science popularizer Lisa Randall,{{cite journal |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2006/green.html |title=The String is The Thing – Brian Greene Unravels the Fabric of the Universe |journal=Columbia Magazine |publisher=Columbia University |author=JR Minkel |date=Spring 2006 |access-date=2007-10-31 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223012954/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2006/green.html |archive-date=2007-12-23 }} Greene studied physics at Harvard University, graduating in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude. He then did doctoral study in theoretical physics at Magdalen College, Oxford, under Graham Ross and James Binney. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 with a thesis entitled "Superstrings: topology, geometry and phenomenology and astrophysical implications of supersymmetric models".{{Cite thesis |title=Thesis Superstrings |date=1986 |publisher=University of Oxford |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:624d0f65-dab9-4b1e-a2d2-dcba69a41e6e |last1=Greene |first1=B. |last2=Greene |first2=Brian }}{{cite web|url=http://physics.columbia.edu/people/profile/406|title=Brian Greene - Department of Physics|website=physics.columbia.edu|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211055311/http://physics.columbia.edu/people/profile/406|archive-date=2013-12-11}}[https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:624d0f65-dab9-4b1e-a2d2-dcba69a41e6e Thesis Brian Randolph Greene: Superstrings] - website of Oxford University Research Archive While at Oxford, Greene also studied piano with the concert pianist Jack Gibbons.{{cite news |title=The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene {{!}} book review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2012/nov/28/1 |access-date=21 October 2019}}

Greene joined the physics faculty of Cornell University in 1990, received tenure in 1993, and was appointed to a full professorship in 1995.{{Cite web |date=2020-04-08 |title=Brian Greene |url=https://www.ttbook.org/people/brian-greene |access-date=2025-01-22 |website=To The Best Of Our Knowledge}} The following year, he joined the faculty of Columbia University as a full professor.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-04 |title=Brian Greene {{!}} Biography, Books, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Brian-Greene |access-date=2025-01-22 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}} At Columbia, Greene is director of the university’s center for theoretical physics and is leading a research program at the intersection of string theory, mathematical physics, and cosmology.{{Cite web |last=admin |title=Physics Research |url=https://www.briangreene.org/physics-research/ |access-date=2025-01-22 |website=Brian Greene |language=en-US}}

Greene's area of research is string theory, a candidate for a theory of quantum gravity. He is known for his contribution to the understanding of the different shapes the curled-up dimensions of string theory can take. The most important of these shapes are so-called Calabi–Yau manifolds; when the extra dimensions take on those particular forms, physics in three dimensions exhibits an abstract symmetry known as supersymmetry.{{Cite journal |last=Candelas |first=P. |last2=Horowitz |first2=Gary T. |last3=Strominger |first3=Andrew |last4=Witten |first4=Edward |date=1985-01-01 |title=Vacuum configurations for superstrings |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0550321385906029 |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=258 |pages=46–74 |doi=10.1016/0550-3213(85)90602-9 |issn=0550-3213|url-access=subscription }}

Greene co-discovered a particular class of symmetry relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds, known as mirror symmetry{{Cite journal |last=Greene |first=B. R. |last2=Plesser |first2=M. R. |date=1990-07-02 |title=Duality in Calabi-Yau moduli space |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/055032139090622K |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=338 |issue=1 |pages=15–37 |doi=10.1016/0550-3213(90)90622-K |issn=0550-3213|url-access=subscription }} and is known for his research on the flop-transition,{{Cite journal |last=Aspinwall |first=Paul S. |last2=Greene |first2=Brian R. |last3=Morrison |first3=David R. |date=1993-04-15 |title=Multiple mirror manifolds and topology change in string theory |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/037026939391428P |journal=Physics Letters B |volume=303 |issue=3 |pages=249–259 |doi=10.1016/0370-2693(93)91428-P |issn=0370-2693|arxiv=hep-th/9301043 }}{{Cite journal |last=Aspinwall |first=Paul S. |last2=Greene |first2=Brian R. |last3=Morrison |first3=David R. |date=1994-03-28 |title=Calabi-Yau moduli space, mirror manifolds and spacetime topology change in string theory |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0550321394903212 |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=416 |issue=2 |pages=414–480 |doi=10.1016/0550-3213(94)90321-2 |issn=0550-3213|arxiv=hep-th/9309097 }} a mild form of topology change, and also the conifold transition,{{Cite journal |last=Greene |first=Brian R. |last2=Morrison |first2=David R. |last3=Strominger |first3=Andrew |date=1995-09-25 |title=Black hole condensation and the unification of string vacua |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/055032139500371X |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=451 |issue=1 |pages=109–120 |doi=10.1016/0550-3213(95)00371-X |issn=0550-3213|arxiv=hep-th/9504145 }} a more severe transformation of space, showing that topology in string theory can change smoothly.{{Cite book |title=Symétries quantiques =: Quantum symmetries: Les Houches, session LXIV, 1 Août - 8 Septembre 1995 |date=1998 |publisher=Elsevier Science |isbn=978-0-444-82867-5 |editor-last=Connes |editor-first=Alain |location=Amsterdam ; New York |pages=387–471 |editor-last2=Gawędzki |editor-first2=K. |editor-last3=Zinn-Justin |editor-first3=Jean}}

Greene has also studied string cosmology, especially the imprints of trans-Planckian physics on the cosmic microwave background,{{Cite journal |last=Easther |first=Richard |last2=Greene |first2=Brian R. |last3=Kinney |first3=William H. |last4=Shiu |first4=Gary |date=2002-07-22 |title=Generic estimate of trans-Planckian modifications to the primordial power spectrum in inflation |url=https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.023518 |journal=Physical Review D |volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=023518 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.66.023518|arxiv=hep-th/0204129 }} and brane-gas cosmologies that could explain why the space around us has three large dimensions.{{Cite journal |last=Greene |first=Brian |last2=Kabat |first2=Daniel |last3=Marnerides |first3=Stefanos |date=2010-08-25 |title=Dynamical decompactification and three large dimensions |url=https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.043528 |journal=Physical Review D |volume=82 |issue=4 |pages=043528 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.82.043528|arxiv=0908.0955 }} His work has expanded on the suggestion of a black hole electron, namely that a black hole can continuously transform into a particle such as an electron.

Currently, Greene is studying non-simply connected and non-orientable compactifications and has showed that in some of these contexts, signals can have an effective speed greater than that of light, and even travel back in time.{{Cite journal |last=Greene |first=Brian |last2=Kabat |first2=Daniel |last3=Levin |first3=Janna |last4=Porrati |first4=Massimo |date=2023-01-27 |title=Back to the future: Causality on a moving braneworld |url=https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.025016 |journal=Physical Review D |volume=107 |issue=2 |pages=025016 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.107.025016|arxiv=2208.09014 }}{{Cite journal |last=Greene |first=Brian |last2=Kabat |first2=Daniel |last3=Levin |first3=Janna |last4=Menon |first4=Arjun S. |date=2022-10-10 |title=Superluminal propagation on a moving braneworld |url=https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.085001 |journal=Physical Review D |volume=106 |issue=8 |pages=085001 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.106.085001|arxiv=2206.13590 }}

Greene is well known to a wider audience for his work on popularizing theoretical physics, in particular string theory and the search for a unified theory of physics. His first book, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, published in 1999 and a New York Times Best Seller, is a popularization of superstring theory and M-theory.{{Cite book |last=Greene |first=Brian |title=The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory |date=2003 |publisher=Norton |isbn=978-0-393-33810-2 |location=New York London}} It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, and winner of The Aventis Prizes for Science Books in 2000.{{cite web |title=Profile of Brian Greene |url=http://www.roycecarlton.com/speakers/greene.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823170627/http://www.roycecarlton.com/speakers/greene.html |archive-date=2007-08-23 |access-date=2008-02-17 |url-status=usurped |publisher=Royce Carlton Incorporated}}

Greene's second book, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004), a New York Times Best Seller, is about space, time, and the nature of the universe.{{Cite book |last=Greene |first=Brian |title=The fabric of the cosmos: space, time, and the texture of reality |date=2005 |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=978-0-375-72720-7 |edition=First Vintage books |location=New York}} Aspects covered in this book include non-local particle entanglement as it relates to special relativity and basic explanations of string theory. It is an examination of the very nature of matter and reality, covering such topics as spacetime and cosmology, origins and unification, and including an exploration into reality and the imagination.

Greene's third book, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, published in January 2011, was a New York Times Best Seller and deals in greater depth with multiple universes, or, as they are sometimes referred to collectively, the multiverse.{{Cite web |last=Ferris |first=Timothy |date=2011-02-04 |title=Expanding Horizons |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/books/review/Ferris-t.html |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=The New York Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |last=Greene |first=Brian |title=The hidden reality: parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos |date=2011 |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=978-0-307-27812-8 |edition=1. Vintage Books |location=New York, NY}}

Greene's most recent book, Until the End of Time: Mind Matter and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (2020), was a New York Times Best Seller and explores the universe’s evolution and likely end, as well as the emergence of life and consciousness, bridging cosmological and existentialist thought.{{Cite book |last=Greene |first=Brian |title=Until the end of time: mind, matter, and our search for meaning in an evolving universe |date=2020 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf Books |isbn=978-1-5247-3167-0 |edition=First |location=New York}}

Greene’s first book, The Elegant Universe, was adapted into a three-part PBS television special of the same name, hosted and narrated by Greene, which won a 2003 Peabody Award.{{cite web |title=NOVA: The Elegant Universe with Brian Greene |url=http://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/nova-the-elegant-universe-with-brian-greene |access-date=21 October 2019}}

Greene’s second book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, was adapted into a four-part PBS television special of the same name, hosted and narrated by Greene, which premiered in 2011{{Cite web |date=2011-11-02 |title=The Fabric of the Cosmos |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/the-fabric-of-the-cosmos/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=www.pbs.org |language=en-US}} and was nominated for multiple Emmy Awards.{{Cite web |title=PBS Programs Nominated for 37 News & Documentary Emmys |url=https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/pbs-programs-nominated-for-37-news-documentary-emmys/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=About PBS - Main |language=en}}

Greene was also featured in ABC’s Nightline in Primetime: Brave New World series.{{Cite web |title=Brian Green Featured on ABC Nightline in Prime Time |url=https://www.phys-l.org/archives/1999/09_1999/msg00433.html |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=www.phys-l.org}}

Greene worked with by composer Philip Glass, playwright David Henry Hwang, filmmakers AL and AL, and executive producer Tracy Day to adapt Greene’s novella Icarus at the Edge of Time, which is a futuristic re-telling of the Icarus myth, into a stage work for full orchestra, film, and narrator. The work premiered on June 6, 2010 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, with narrator John Lithgow, as part of World Science Festival.{{Cite web |title=Icarus at the Edge of Time |url=https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/performance/icarus-edge-time/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=World Science Festival |language=en-US}} Icarus at the Edge of Time has since been performed 55 times in 31 cities and 13 countries, with narrators including Liev Schreiber, Kate Mulgrew, Levar Burton, and David Morrissey.

Greene wrote the stage work Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein, which traces Albert Einstein’s discovery of the General Theory of Relativity, and his subsequent failed attempts to find what he called “the unified theory.” The original score was written by Jeff Beal and visuals and stage production were created by 59 Productions, with executive producer Tracy Day. The work premiered on February 19, 2019 at the Gerald Lynch Theater in New York City,{{Cite web |title=Light Falls: Space, Time & An Obsession of Einstein – Gerald W. Lynch Theater |url=https://geraldwlynchtheater.com/events/light-falls-space-time-an-obsession-of-einstein/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |language=en}} with Greene in the role of narrator, and was filmed by Great Performances for national broadcast on PBS on the centenary of the confirmation of General Relativity, May 29, 2019.{{Cite web |title=Light Falls |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/light-falls |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Light Falls}}

Greene wrote the stage work Time, Creativity and the Cosmos, exploring the origin of the universe, life, and creative expression, which premiered on May 30, 2017 at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, with Greene in the role of narrator and performers Pilobolus, Joshua Bell, Renee Fleming, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and David Draiman.{{Cite web |title=Opening Night: Time, Creativity, and the Cosmos |url=https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/opening-night-time-creativity-cosmos |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=World Science Festival |language=en-US}}

In 2008, together with former ABC News producer Tracy Day, Greene co-founded the World Science Festival{{cite web|title=Who We Are|url=http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/who_we_are/|website=World Science Festival|access-date=September 6, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906060135/http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/who_we_are/|archive-date=September 6, 2015}}{{cite web|title=About the World Science Festival|url=http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/about/|website=World Science Festival|access-date=September 6, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906045447/http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/about/|archive-date=September 6, 2015}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/geraldeskenazi/2019/05/28/finding-a-world-of-science-in-new-york/#68f4da84351d |title=Add This To Your Calendar In New York: The Fascinating Science Festival |last=Eskenazi |first=Gerald |date=May 28, 2019 |work=Forbes |access-date=Oct 14, 2019}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/geraldeskenazi/2019/05/28/finding-a-world-of-science-in-new-york/#68f4da84351d |title=Add This To Your Calendar In New York: The Fascinating Science Festival |last=Eskenazi |first=Gerald |date=May 28, 2019 |work=Forbes |access-date=Oct 14, 2019}}{{cite news|last1=Overbye|first1=Dennis|title=An Overflowing Five-Day Banquet of Science and Its Meanings|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03fest.html|access-date=September 6, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 3, 2008}} as a forum for cultivating “a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.”{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/about/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=World Science Festival |language=en-US}} Since its founding, the World Science Festival has produced more than a thousand live and digital programs on subjects including cosmology, astronomy, quantum mechanics, particle physics, black holes, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, consciousness, quantum biology, genius, creativity, astrobiology, extrasolar planets, psychedelics.{{Cite web |title=Video Library |url=https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/video/video-library/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=World Science Festival |language=en-US}} These programs have involved hundreds of scientists, technologists, and artists.{{Cite web |title=Participants |url=https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/festival/participants/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=World Science Festival |language=en-US}}

File:Bookbits - 2011-02-16 Brian Greene-The Hidden Reality- Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos.vorb.ogaThe popularity of his books and his natural on-camera demeanor have resulted in many media appearances, including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jjFjC30-4A |title=Brian Greene Explains That Whole General Relativity Thing |date=2015-11-12 |last=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |access-date=2025-01-23 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajZojAwfEbs |title=Gravitational Waves Hit The Late Show |date=2016-02-25 |last=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |access-date=2025-01-23 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75szwX09pg8 |title=Brian Greene Explains The Most Powerful Explosions In The Universe |date=2016-05-26 |last=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |access-date=2025-01-23 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ppmUKW7Lc&t=18s |title=Brian Greene Makes Stuff Levitate. Seriously. |date=2017-06-29 |last=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |access-date=2025-01-23 |via=YouTube}} Good Morning America,{{Cite web |last=America |first=Good Morning |title=Author Brian Greene reflects on the beginning and possible end of time |url=https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/revelations-fired-fbi-director-exclusive-interview-69527461 |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Good Morning America |language=en}} CNN,{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/12/14/brian-greene-amanpour-nuclear-fusion-climate-crisis.cnn |title=Fusion breakthrough: ‘Scientifically huge. Technologically, big leaps yet to come’, says Brian Greene {{!}} CNN |date=2022-12-14 |language=en |access-date=2025-01-23 |via=www.cnn.com}} ABC News,{{Cite web |date=2024-04-13 |title=Where we came from, and where we’re going |url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/scienceshow/where-we-came-from-and-where-we-re-going/103700368 |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=ABC listen |language=en-AU}} CBS News,{{Cite web |title="Enormously distressing": Leading scientist reacts to poll on scientific beliefs - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/video/enormously-distressing-leading-scientist-reacts-to-poll-on-scientific-beliefs/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}} The History Channel, Conan, The Science Channel, The Discovery Channel, The Colbert Report,{{Citation |title=Brian Greene |date=2005-11-28 |work=The Colbert Report |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0543844/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |others=Stephen Colbert, Brian Greene}} Charlie Rose,{{Cite AV media |url=https://charlierose.com/videos/7308 |title=Brian Greene - Charlie Rose |language=en-US |access-date=2025-01-23 |via=charlierose.com}} The Art Bell Show,{{Cite web |title=Art Bell: Somewhere in Time |url=https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013-05-25-art/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Coast to Coast AM |language=en}} Coast to Coast AM,{{Cite web |title=Brian Greene |url=https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/greene-brian-6303/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Coast to Coast AM |language=en}} BBC World News America, Late Show with David Letterman,{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P3iymn1yzc |title=Brian Greene on David Letterman |date=2010-01-03 |last=annas890 |access-date=2025-01-23 |via=YouTube}} Radiolab,{{Cite web |title=The (Multi) Universe(s) |url=https://radiolab.org/podcast/91859-the-multi-universes |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Radiolab Podcasts {{!}} WNYC Studios |language=en}} and The Joe Rogan Experience.{{Cite web |date=2021-04-08 |title=Brian Greene Episodes - Joe Rogan Podcast |url=https://www.jrepodcast.com/guest/brian-greene/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=JRE Podcast |language=en-US}} He was interviewed at length by Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC radio program The Life Scientific on 28 April 2020.{{cite web |title=BBC The Life Scientific |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hmfm |access-date=8 May 2020}} In April 2011, Greene appeared as himself on The Big Bang Theory in the episode "The Herb Garden Germination", speaking to a small crowd about the contents of his most recent book.

Greene was a technical consultant for the film Frequency, in which he also had a cameo role. He was a consultant on the 2006 time-travel movie Déjà Vu. He also had a cameo appearance as an Intel scientist in 2007's The Last Mimzy. Greene was also mentioned in the 2002 Angel episode "Supersymmetry" and in the 2008 Stargate Atlantis episode "Trio".

Greene has lectured outside of the collegiate setting, at both a general and a technical level, in more than twenty-five countries and all seven continents. In 2012, he received the Richtmyer Memorial Award, which is given annually by the American Association of Physics Teachers.{{cite web |title=Brian Greene Recognized as 2012 Recipient of the Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award |url=http://www.aapt.org/aboutaapt/greene_richtmyeraward_pr20111020.cfm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115132410/http://www.aapt.org/aboutaapt/greene_richtmyeraward_pr20111020.cfm |archive-date=January 15, 2013 |access-date=January 11, 2013 |publisher=American Association of Physics Teachers}}

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.{{cite news |last=Marlow |first=Jeffrey |date=May 9, 2013 |title=The Science Laureate of the United States |url=https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/the-science-laureate-of-the-united-states/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911032425/http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/the-science-laureate-of-the-united-states |archive-date=September 11, 2013 |access-date=September 12, 2013 |newspaper=Wired}}

In March 2015, an Australian spider that uses waves to hunt prey, Dolomedes briangreenei, was to be named in honor of Brian Greene.{{cite web |last=Mitchell-Whittington |first=Amy |date=March 9, 2016 |title=Brisbane welcomes world renowned physicist by naming spider after him |url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/brisbane-welcomes-world-renowned-physicist-by-naming-spider-after-him-20160309-gneg0n.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020010437/https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/brisbane-welcomes-world-renowned-physicist-by-naming-spider-after-him-20160309-gneg0n.html |archive-date=October 20, 2017 |website=Brisbane Times}}{{cite web |last=Lewis |first=Danny |title=Recently Discovered Spider Is Named After Physicist Brian Greene |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/recently-discovered-spider-named-after-physicist-brian-greene-180958396/ |website=Smithsonian}}

• 1984 Rhodes Scholarship
• 1987 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences{{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 0074126 - Focused Research Group: Calabi-Yau Manifolds and their Applications |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0074126 |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=www.nsf.gov}}
• 1992 National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award{{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 9258582 - NSF Young Investigator |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9258582 |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=www.nsf.gov}}
• 1993 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship{{Cite web |title=Grants {{!}} Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |url=https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7323 |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=sloan.org |language=en}}
• 2000 Aventis Prize, The Elegant Universe{{Cite journal |date=June 2000 |title=Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2000 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/35014700 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=405 |issue=6786 |pages=513–513 |doi=10.1038/35014700 |issn=1476-4687}}
• 2000 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for General Nonfiction, The Elegant Universe{{Cite web |title=Finalist: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, by Brian Greene (W.W. Norton) |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/brian-greene |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=www.pulitzer.org |language=en}}
• 2003 Gemant Award, American Institute of Physics{{Cite web |date=2003-01-03 |title=Brian Greene wins 2003 Gemant Award from AIP - AIP.ORG |url=https://ww2.aip.org/aip/brian-greene-wins-2003-gemant-award-from-aip |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=AIP |language=en}}
• 2003 George Foster Peabody Award, The Elegant Universe with Brian Greene{{Cite web |title=NOVA: The Elegant Universe with Brian Greene |url=https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/nova-the-elegant-universe-with-brian-greene/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=The Peabody Awards |language=en-US}}
• 2004 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award{{Cite web |title=PBK - Phi Beta Kappa's Award in Science past winners. |url=https://www.pbk.org/awards/bookawards/science-winners |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=www.pbk.org}}
• 2010 Cooper Union Urban Visionary Award{{Cite web |title=Urban Visionaries |url=https://cooper.edu/about/urban-visionaries |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=The Cooper Union |language=en}}
• 2012 AAPT Richtmeyer Memorial Award for Research and Teaching{{Cite web |title=Brian Greene 2012 Richtmyer Award |url=https://aapt.org/aboutaapt/greene_richtmyeraward_pr20111020.cfm |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=aapt.org}}
• 2013 Best Documentary, Jackson Hole Film Festival, Fabric of the Cosmos,
• 2013 Merck-Serono Book Prize for Literature and Science, for The Hidden Reality
• 2020 Michael Pupin Medal for Service to the Nation in Science{{Cite web |date=2024-05-31 |title=Pupin Medal {{!}} Columbia Engineering |url=https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/alumni/connections/columbia-engineering-alumni-association/awards/pupin-medal |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=www.engineering.columbia.edu |language=en}}
• 2025 AAAS Mani L. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science{{Cite web |title=AAAS Announces 2025 Award Winners {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |url=https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-2025-award-winners |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=www.aaas.org |language=en}}

Greene is married to former ABC producer Tracy Day.{{Cite news |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03fest.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 3, 2008 |title=An Overflowing Five-Day Banquet of Science and Its Meanings }} They have one son, Alec, and one daughter, Sophia. Greene has been vegetarian since he was nine years old and a vegan since 1997.{{cite web |last=Boss |first=Shira |title=Brian Greene Has the World on a String |url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/sep99/12a.html |publisher=Columbia College Today |access-date=January 16, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623130814/http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/sep99/12a.html |archive-date=June 23, 2010 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/sagangathering/3644680226 |title=Consciousness Emerges in the Ash of Stellar Alchemy |publisher=Flickr |access-date=2011-03-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118221041/https://www.flickr.com/photos/sagangathering/3644680226 |archive-date=2015-01-18 |date=2007-08-12 }}{{cite web |title=Scientists and inventors on vegetarianism |url=http://www.godsdirectcontact.org/eng/news/160/vg5.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511214803/http://www.godsdirectcontact.org/eng/news/160/vg5.htm |archive-date=2013-05-11 }}

Greene has stated that he regards science as being incompatible with literalist interpretations of religion and that there is much in the New Atheism movement which resonates with him because he personally does not feel the need for religious explanation. However, he is uncertain of its efficacy as a strategy for spreading a scientific worldview.{{cite web|url=http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/an-interview-with-brian-greene/|title=An Interview with Brian Greene|date=April 3, 2011|website=oxonianreview.org|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927085450/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/an-interview-with-brian-greene/|archive-date=September 27, 2013}} In an interview with The Guardian he stated: "When I'm looking to understand myself as a human, and how I fit in to the long chain of human culture that reaches back thousands of years, religion is a deeply valuable part of that story."{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/06/brian-greene-theoretical-physicist-interview-until-the-end-of-time|title = Physicist Brian Greene: 'Factual information is not the right yardstick for religion'|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 8 February 2020}}

• Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (2020)
• Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein (2016)
• The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (2011)
• Icarus at the Edge of Time (2008)
• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004)
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (1999)

For a full list of technical articles, consult the [https://inspirehep.net/authors/1007642/ publication list] in the INSPIRE-HEP database.

• {{cite journal |first1=Richard |last1=Easther |first2=Brian R. |last2=Greene |first3=Mark G. |last3=Jackson |first4=Daniel |last4=Kabat |year=2005 |title=String windings in the early universe |journal=Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |volume=2005 |issue=2 |pages=009 |arxiv=hep-th/0409121 |doi=10.1088/1475-7516/2005/02/009 |bibcode=2005JCAP...02..009E|s2cid=18798551 }}
• {{cite journal |first1=Richard |last1=Easther |first2=Brian R. |last2=Greene |first3=William H. |last3=Kinney |first4=Gary |last4=Shiu |author-link4= Gary Shiu|year=2002 |title=A generic estimate of trans-Planckian modifications to the primordial power spectrum in inflation |journal=Physical Review D |volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=023518 |arxiv=hep-th/0204129 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.66.023518 |bibcode=2002PhRvD..66b3518E|s2cid=119461276 }}
• R. Easther, B. Greene, W. Kinney, G. Shiu, "[https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0104102 Inflation as a Probe of Short Distance Physics]". Physical Review. D64 (2001) 103502.
• Brian R. Greene, "[https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711124 D-Brane Topology Changing Transitions]". Nuclear Physics. B525 (1998) 284–296.
• Michael R. Douglas, Brian R. Greene, David R. Morrison, "[https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9704151 Orbifold Resolution by D-Branes]". Nuclear Physics. B506 (1997) 84–106.
• Brian R. Greene, David R. Morrison, Andrew Strominger, "[https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504145 Black Hole Condensation and the Unification of String Vacua]". Nuclear Physics. B451 (1995) 109–120.
• P.S. Aspinwall, B.R. Greene, D.R. Morrison, "[https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9309097 Calabi–Yau Moduli Space, Mirror Manifolds and Spacetime Topology Change in String Theory]". Nuclear Physics. B416 (1994) 414–480.
• B.R. Greene and M.R. Plesser, "Duality in Calabi-Yau Moduli Space". Nuclear Physics. B338 (1990) 15.

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