Steven Giddings

Steven B. Giddings is an American physicist and is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.{{cite news |title=Steve Giddings |url=https://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~giddings/ |access-date=16 August 2022 |publisher=University of California, Santa Barbara}}{{cite news |title=Steven Giddings |url=https://www.physics.ucsb.edu/people/steven-giddings |access-date=16 August 2022 |publisher=University of California, Santa Barbara}}

Giddings earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah and a doctorate from Princeton University. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012, "[f]or his wide ranging contributions to gravitational physics at its intersection with elementary particle physics, especially his work on the quantum properties of black holes in the universe and in accelerators".{{cite news |title=APS fellow archive |url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=G&year=&unit_id=&institution= |access-date=16 August 2022 |publisher=American Physical Society}}