Word: maldacena
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...Juan M. Maldacena, the Cabot associate professor of physics, was awarded a five-year MacArthur Fellowship for $245,000 last Thursday for his work with string theory. Days later, he accepted an offer of tenure and will become one of the youngest professors in the department...
...Maldacena said he said he has not decided whathe will do with the prize money. After taking aleave this past spring, the question of spendinganother semester out of the classroom is also upin...
...Maldacena has also earned the respect of his peers outside of Harvard. At a 1998, conference at which he presented his work, a physicist from the University of Chicago turned his complicated theories into lyrics and convinced the 300 theoretical physicists at the conference to dance to a parody titled "Hey, Maldacena...
...composed a song based on the tune of the Macarena, based on the work that had been presented." Maldacena said, laughing...
Department faculty said that awarding tenure to someone so young--Maldacena turned 30 in September--is rare...