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——— and Roger Penrose.
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———, Kip Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman.
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———.
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———.
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THE FABRIC OF THE COSMOS

Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He joined the physics faculty at Cornell University in 1990, was appointed to a full professorship in 1995, and in 1996 joined Columbia University where he is professor of physics and mathematics. He has lectured at both a general and a technical level in more than twenty-five countries and is widely regarded for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City.

The Elegant Universe:
Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions,
and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

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