Emil Martinec

Martinec was born October 4, 1958,{{Cite web|url=http://theory.uchicago.edu/~ejm/cv.html|title=CV: Emil Martinec|website=theory.uchicago.edu|access-date=2018-02-14}} in Downers Grove, Illinois. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1979 and earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984, with a dissertation titled, Quantum Mechanics Versus General Covariance In Gravity And String Models, advised by Michael Peskin.{{Cite web|url=http://inspirehep.net/record/210293?ln=en|title=Quantum Mechanics Versus General Covariance In Gravity And String Models|last=Martinec|first=Emil J.|date=1984|language=en}} He worked the last two years of his graduate education at SLAC, following Peskin's move there.

Early in his career, Martinec worked at Princeton University, where he was part of a research group known as the "Princeton string quartet" that also included physicists David Gross, Jeffrey A. Harvey and Ryan Rohm.{{cite web|last1=Overbye|first1=Dennis|title=String theory, at 20, explains it all (or not)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/science/string-theory-at-20-explains-it-all-or-not.html|website=The New York Times|access-date=February 13, 2018|date=December 7, 2004}} The group developed heterotic string theory in 1985.{{cite book|last1=Mitra|first1=Asoke Nath|title=India in the World of Physics: Then and Now|date=2009|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=9788131715796|page=8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRLPM6s7hWAC&pg=PA8|language=en}} As its name suggests, heterotic string theory combines elements of multiple versions of string theory to attempt to create a more realistic explanation of elementary particle physics. This work was part of a series of advances that forestalled the predicted merger of cosmology and fundamental physics.{{cite book|last1=Steinhardt|first1=Paul J.|last2=Turok|first2=Neil|title=Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang|date=2007|publisher=Crown/Archetype|isbn=9780385523110|page=129|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eAs0FAwb-YIC&pg=PA129|language=en}}

He is currently a professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. He directs the university's Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics.{{cite web|last1=Chang|first1=Kenneth|title=Leo P. Kadanoff, physicist who explored how matter changes, dies at 78|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/science/leo-p-kadanoff-physicist-of-phase-transitions-dies-at-78.html|website=The New York Times|access-date=February 13, 2018|date= November 1, 2015}}

Martinec is co-author of six papers that SLAC's inSPIRE database classifies as "renowned" (having 500 or more citations apiece):{{Cite web |url=http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/E.J.Martinec.1 |title=Martinec, Emil John - Profile - INSPIRE-HEP |website=inspirehep.net |language=en |access-date=2018-02-14}}

• {{cite journal |doi=10.1016/0550-3213(87)90676-6 |title=The conformal field theory of orbifolds |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=282 |pages=13–73 |year=1987 |last1=Dixon |first1=L. |last2=Friedan |first2=D. |last3=Martinec |first3=E. |last4=Shenker |first4=S. |bibcode=1987NuPhB.282...13D}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1016/0550-3213(86)90356-1 |title=Conformal invariance, supersymmetry and string theory |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=271 |issue=1 |pages=93 |year=1986 |last1=Friedan |first1=D. |last2=Martinec |first2=E. |last3=Shenker |first3=S.|citeseerx=10.1.1.470.4038 }}
• Republished as {{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S0550-3213(86)80006-2 |title=Conformal invariance, supersymmetry and string theory |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=271 |issue=3–4 |pages=93 |year=1986 |last1=Friedan |first1=D. |last2=Martinec |first2=E. |last3=Shenker |first3=S. |bibcode=1986NuPhB.271...93F|citeseerx=10.1.1.470.4038 }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1016/0550-3213(85)90506-1 |title=Strings in background fields |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=262 |issue=4 |pages=593 |year=1985 |last1=Callan |first1=C. G. |last2=Friedan |first2=D. |last3=Martinec |first3=E. J. |last4=Perry |first4=M. J. |bibcode=1985NuPhB.262..593C}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1016/0550-3213(86)90146-X |title=Heterotic string theory |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=267 |issue=1 |pages=75–124 |year=1986 |last1=Gross |first1=D. J. |last2=Harvey |first2=J. A. |last3=Martinec |first3=E. |last4=Rohm |first4=R. |bibcode=1986NuPhB.267...75G}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1016/0550-3213(85)90394-3 |title=Heterotic string theory (I). The free heterotic string |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=256 |pages=253–284 |year=1985 |last1=Gross |first1=D. J. |last2=Harvey |first2=J. A. |last3=Martinec |first3=E. |last4=Rohm |first4=R. |bibcode=1985NuPhB.256..253G}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.502 |pmid=10031535 |title=Heterotic String |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=54 |issue=6 |pages=502–505 |year=1985 |last1=Gross |first1=D. J. |last2=Harvey |first2=J. A. |last3=Martinec |first3=E. |last4=Rohm |first4=R. |bibcode=1985PhRvL..54..502G}}

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (Year: 1987, Field: Physics){{Cite web|url=https://sloan.org/past-fellows|title=Past Fellows|website=sloan.org|access-date=2018-02-14|archive-date=2018-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314000756/https://sloan.org/past-fellows|url-status=dead}}
• National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator {{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8657788&HistoricalAwards=false|title=Award Abstract #number 657788, Presidential Young Investigator Award: Research in String Theory (Physics)|date=July 1, 1987|website=National Science Foundation}}
• U.S. Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator{{Cite web|url=https://science.energy.gov/~/media/hep/pdf/files/pdfs/OJI_ALL_Awards.pdf|title=DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Awardees|date=2009|website=U.S. Department of Energy|page=6|access-date=February 14, 2018}}

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