Steven B. Giddings is an American physicist and is a professor at the

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. Giddings earned a bachelor's degree from the

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and a doctorate from

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. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012, " r 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".

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