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List of quantum gravity researchers

This is a list of the researchers in quantum gravity who have Wikipedia articles.Jan Ambjørn: expert on dynamical triangulations who helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity. Augusto Sagnotti: the physicist who demonstrated that perturbative quantum gravity diverges at two loops, and made a number of important contributions to string theory. Giovanni Amelino-Camelia: physicist who developed the idea of doubly special relativity, and founded Quantum-Gravity phenomenology. Abhay Ashtekar: inventor of the Ashtekar variables, one of the founders of loop quantum gravity. John Baez: mathematical physicist who introduced the notion of spin foam in loop quantum gravity. Julian Barbour: philosopher and author of The End of Time, Absolute or Relative Motion?: The Discovery of Dynamics. John W. Barrett: mathematical physicist who helped develop the Barrett–Crane model of quantum gravity. Martin Bojowald: physicist who developed the application of loop quantum gravity to cosmology. Steve Carlip: expert on 3-dimensional quantum gravity. Louis Crane: mathematician who helped develop the Barrett–Crane model of quantum gravity. Bryce DeWitt: formulated the Wheeler–DeWitt equation for the wavefunction of the Universe with John Archibald Wheeler. Bianca Dittrich: mathematical physicist known for her contributions to loop quantum gravity and spin foam models, currently working on coarse-graining of spin foams. Fay Dowker: physicist working on causal sets as well as the interpretation of quantum mechanics. David Finkelstein: physicist who has contributed much quantum relativity and the logical foundations of QR. Laurent Freidel: mathematical physicist known for his contributions to loop quantum gravity and spin foam models, in particular the Freidel-Krasnov model. Rodolfo Gambini: physicist who helped introduce loop quantum gravity; coauthor of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity. Gary Gibbons: physicist who has done important work on black holes. Brian Greene: physicist who is considered one of the world's foremost string theorists. James Hartle: physicist who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe. Stephen Hawking: leading physicist, expert on black holes and discoverer of Hawking radiation who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe. Michał Heller: mathematical physicist, philosopher & theologian working on non-commutative geometry. Christopher Isham: physicist who focuses on conceptual problems in quantum gravity. Ted Jacobson: physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity. Michio Kaku: physicist one of the foremost leading String theorist and also known for the Popular Science. Renate Loll: physicist who worked on loop quantum gravity and more recently helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity. Luboš Motl: physicist who worked on string theory. Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara: physicist who works on loop quantum gravity and spin network models that take causality into account. Roger Penrose: mathematical physicist who invented spin networks and twistor theory. Jorge Pullin: physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity, co-author of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity. Carlo Rovelli: one of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity. Lee Smolin: one of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity. Rafael Sorkin: physicist, primary proponent of the causal set approach to quantum gravity. Andrew Strominger: physicist who works on string theory. Leonard Susskind: physicist who is considered to be one of the three fathers of string theory. Frank J. Tipler: mathematical physicist. Bill Unruh: physicist engaged in the study of semiclassical gravity and responsible for the discovery of the so-called Unruh effect. Cumrun Vafa: physicist and developer of F-theory, known for Vafa-Witten theorem and Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture. Robert Wald: physicist in the field of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Anzhong Wang: physicist, major contributor to Horava-Lifshitz gravity; String theory and applications to cosmology. Paul S. Wesson: physicist, cosmologist and writer, known as founder of the "Space-time Consortium" and his work on Kaluza–Klein theory. John Archibald Wheeler: physicist in the field of quantum gravity due to his development, with Bryce DeWitt, of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation. Edward Witten: mathematical physicist in string theory and M-Theory

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