Rafael Sorkin

Profile Updated: August 27, 2013
Spouse/Partner Fatma Husein
Homepage http://www.physics.syr.edu/~sorkin/
Occupation Professor Emeritus of Physics at Syracuse Univ.
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His research is directed broadly to the problem of reconciling
general relativity with quantum mechanics, and his current efforts
in that direction center on causal set theory, which replaces continuous
spacetime by a collection of discrete "atoms" structured as a
locally finite order.

Beyond science, he takes interest in languages, music, political economy and the outdoors.

Rafael is Currently Professor Emeritus of Physics at Syracuse University and Researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

School Story

New Trier Township High School (valedictorian, 1963)(National Merit Scholar)

Harvard University (A.B., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1966)

California Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1974).

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