Steven Jonathan Carlip (born 1953) is an American

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at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The inst ...

. He is known for his work on (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity, the quantum gravitational basis of black hole thermodynamics, and

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s. Carlip graduated from

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in physics in 1975. In 1987, he graduated from the

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under the direction of

Bryce DeWitt Bryce Seligman DeWitt (January 8, 1923 – September 23, 2004), was an American theoretical physicist noted for his work in gravitation and quantum field theory. Life He was born Carl Bryce Seligman, but he and his three brothers, including ...

. After a

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period at

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in Princeton, New Jersey, he has been teaching — since 1990 — at

. Carlip was one of the recipients of the Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in the year 1991.

Works

*Carlip, Steven, ''Quantum Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions,'' . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, December 2003. *Carlip, Steven, ''General Relativity: A Concise Introduction,'' . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, March 2019.

References

External links

Carlip's publications at INSPIRE-HEP

Steven Carlip's webpage at UC Davis
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlip, Steve 21st-century American physicists University of California, Davis faculty 1953 births Living people Theoretical physicists Harvard College alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni