Brian Greene, born in New York and a professor at Columbia University, is a theoretical physicist and string theorist most widely known publicly for his books "The Elegant Universe" and "Fabric of the Cosmos" as well as related PBS television specials. Greene entered Harvard in 1980 to concentrate on physics and after completing his bachelor's degree, earned his doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar.
At Columbia, Greene is co-director of the university's Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP), and is leading a research program applying superstring theory to cosmological questions. He is also one of the FQXi large grant awardees, his project title being "Arrow of Time in the Quantum Universe". His co-investigators are David Albert and Maulik Parikh. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.