Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03

Cumrun Vafa Biography and Timeline

Follow Cumrun Vafa through 2 dated historical records for Iran.

Cumrun Vafa, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

2Distinct records
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1960–1996Years on this page

1960

Birth of Cumrun Vafa

Science / Astronomy

Birth of Cumrun Vafa

1996

Black Holes

Science / Astronomy

Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa use string theory to calculate the entropy of a black hole, getting the same answer as Hawking and Bekenstein

Records, sources and methodology

These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.