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Black Holes

Iran · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1996

Cumrun Vafa1996

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

Names involved

Cumrun Vafa

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