After abandoning family plans to go into the heating business, Leonard Susskind went on to become a founder of string theory. He is the director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics in ...

Some celestial bodies are so cold that methane freezes; others are so hot that nuclear reactions occur. And then there's Earth, with a benign temperature hovering in the narrow range between freezing ...

He probably won’t like me for saying this, but Leonard Susskind of Stanford University looks a bit like Charles Darwin. The reason I know is that Susskind – one of the father figures of string theory ...

Theoretical physicists are as big a bunch of atheists as you would care to meet. So why are they always going on about God? “God does not play dice,’’ declared Albert Einstein. “We should know the ...

Professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford University in 1978, where he continues to work as a Professor of Physics.

Jonathan Kirsch, a contributing writer for Book Review, is the author of the forthcoming "A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western ...

Dr Leonard Susskind, the Felix Bloch professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University and one of the pioneers of string theory, is all set to add new fuel to the fire that’s now raging in the ...

Readers ready to embrace their inner applied mathematician will enjoy this brisk, bare-bones introduction to classical mechanics drawn from Stanford University’s “Continuing Studies” program. Although ...