For a long time I've been involved in the interface of elementary particle physics and general relativity, string theory in particular. Some very exciting things have been happening in string theory that I wish to pursue. Although string theory has not fulfilled or even come close to its original aims - to unify our ideas about the fundamental forces - it is now providing surprising insights in other areas of fundamental physics. These are problems that nobody has had any way of understanding and now we have a chance of solving. Read more
Stephen Hawking's successor named Cambridge University names Professor Michael Green as the person who will succeed Professor Stephen Hawking in one of the world's most prestigious academic positions.
Michael Boris Green FRS (born 22 May 1946) is a British physicist and one of the pioneers of string theory. He is a professor of Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University in England. He has been appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics on October 2009 Source