Agreed to "pause" his relationship with the Institute in light of revelations that he had maintained contact with Jeffrey Epstein after the latter's initial conviction
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Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. Smolin's 2006 book The Trouble with Physics criticized string theory's viability. He has made contributions to quantum gra…
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Born 6 June 1955 · Q437263
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2025· 1 entry
And 2026, it was found Smolin had been in contact with Epstein as recently as 2013
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2019· 1 entry
Smolin told The Verge he had not been in contact with Epstein since 2008, the same year he had pleaded guilty to charges of solicitation of prostitution and of solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 1
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2014· 2 entries
Was awarded the Buchalter Cosmology Prize for a work published in collaboration with Marina Cortês
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Published a book, its two parts being written separately
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Majorana Prize (2007).
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Was awarded the Majorana Prize from the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics, and in 2009 the Klopsteg Memorial Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for "extraordinary accomplishments in
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2003· 1 entry
Smolin contributed a note to Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book
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1995· 2 entries
And a visiting professor at Imperial College London (1999–2001), before becoming one of the founding faculty members at the Perimeter Institute in 2001
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“Is the flow of time something real, or might our sense of time passing be just an illusion that hides the fact that what is real is only a vast collection of memories?”
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1992· 2 entries
And summarized it in a book aimed at a lay audience called The Life of the Cosmos
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Proposed as a prediction of his theory that no neutron star should exist with a mass of more than 1
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1979· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University, Doctor of Philosophy (1979).
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1955· 1 entry
Born 1955-06-06.
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