Lenny Susskind at Stanford University

Leonard Susskind is a theoretical physics professor at Stanford University. His contributions to physics - or those that he shares with others - include

• the discovery that string theory is based on one-dimensional objects
• the theory of quark confinement
• the development of Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory
• the theory of scaling violations in deep inelastic electroproduction
• the theory of symmetry breaking sometimes known as "Technicolor theory"
• the first theories of cosmological baryogenesis apart from Sakharov's work which was unknown in the West
• the string theory of black hole entropy
• the principle of "black hole complementarity"
• the holographic principle, the matrix description of M-theory
• the introduction of holographic entropy bounds in cosmology
• and the idea of an anthropic string theory "landscape".

Prof. Susskind is one of the most entertaining mavericks in the field of string theory.