Black Holes
Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa use string theory to calculate the entropy of a black hole, getting the same answer as Hawking and Bekenstein
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Andrew Strominger Biography and Timeline
Follow Andrew Strominger through 2 dated historical records for United States of America.
Andrew Strominger, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1996–2016Years on this page
1996
2016
Soft Hair on Black Holes
With Stephen Hawking and Malcolm Perry, develops a soft-hair framework linking horizon symmetries to the black hole information problem.
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