Paul Ginsparg
American physicist
Paul Henry Ginsparg (born January 1, 1955) is an American physicist . He developed the arXiv.org e-print archive .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Education
He is a graduate of Syosset High School in Syosset, New York , on Long Island . He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and from Cornell University with a Doctor of Philosophy in theoretical particle physics with a thesis titled Aspects of symmetry behavior in quantum field theory .
Career in physics
Ginsparg was a junior fellow and taught in the physics department at Harvard University until 1990.[ 4]
The pre-print archive was developed while he was a member of staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory , 1990–2001. Since 2001, Ginsparg has been a professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University .[ 5]
He has published physics papers in the areas of quantum field theory , string theory , conformal field theory , and quantum gravity . He often comments on the changing world of physics in the Information Age .[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11]
Awards
He has been awarded the P.A.M. (Physics-Astronomy-Math) Award from the Special Libraries Association ,[ 12] named a Lingua Franca "Tech 20", elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society , awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002,[ 13] received the Council of Science Editors Award for Meritorious Achievement, and received the Paul Evans Peters Award from Educause , ARL , and CNI .[ 14]
He was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2008–2009.[ 4]
He was named a White House Champion of Change[ 15] in June 2013.[ 16] He was awarded with Einstein Foundation Award in 2021 for creating the arXiv.org.[ 17]
Personal life
He has two children - a daughter, Miryam Ginsparg (b. 2000), and a son, Noam Ginsparg (b. 2004). His wife is Laura Jones, a mathematical biologist and researcher.
Publications
"Creating a global knowledge network" , UNESCO Expert Conference on Electronic Publishing in Science , Paris, 19–23 February 2001, Second Joint ICSU Press
Fluctuating geometries in statistical mechanics and field theory , Editors François David, Paul Ginsparg, Jean Zinn-Justin, Elsevier , 1996, ISBN 978-0-444-82294-9
"First Steps toward Electronic Research Communication" , Gateways to knowledge: the role of academic libraries in teaching, learning, and research , Editor Lawrence Dowler, MIT Press , 1997, ISBN 978-0-262-04159-1
Ginsparg, P. (2006). "As We May Read" . Journal of Neuroscience . 26 (38): 9606– 9608. doi :10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3161-06.2006 . PMC 6674456 . PMID 16988030 .
Ginsparg, P.; Houle, P.; Joachims, T.; Sul, J. (2004). "Mapping subsets of scholarly information" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 101 (Suppl 1): 5236– 5240. arXiv :cs/0312018 . Bibcode :2004PNAS..101.5236G . doi :10.1073/pnas.0308253100 . PMC 387301 . PMID 14766973 .
Bachrach, S.; Berry, R.; Blume, M.; Von Foerster, T.; Fowler, A.; Ginsparg, P.; Heller, S.; Kestner, N.; Odlyzko, A.; Okerson, A.; Wigington, R.; Moffat, A. (1998). "Who should own scientific papers?". Science . 281 (5382): 1459– 1460. Bibcode :1998Sci...281.1459B . doi :10.1126/science.281.5382.1459 . PMID 9750115 . S2CID 36290551 .
Freedman, D.; Ginsparg, P.; Sommerfield, C.; Warner, N. (1987). "String-ghost interactions and the trace anomaly". Physical Review D . 36 (6): 1800– 1818. Bibcode :1987PhRvD..36.1800F . doi :10.1103/physrevd.36.1800 . PMID 9958364 .
Ginsparg, P. (1987). "On toroidal compactification of heterotic superstrings". Physical Review D . 35 (2): 648– 654. Bibcode :1987PhRvD..35..648G . doi :10.1103/physrevd.35.648 . PMID 9957701 .
Notes
^ a b Ginsparg, Paul (2011). "It was twenty years ago today.". arXiv :1108.2700v1 [cs.DL ].
^ Ginsparg, P. (2011). "ArXiv at 20" . Nature . 476 (7359): 145– 147. Bibcode :2011Natur.476..145G . doi :10.1038/476145a . PMID 21833066 . S2CID 4421407 .
^ "Literature in Focus: Paul Ginsparg" . Cern Bulletin . CERN Document Server. 2008.
^ a b "Quick Study: Paul Ginsparg '77, JF '81, RI '09" . Archived from the original on 4 July 2010.
^ "Paul Ginsparg - Cornell Department of Physics - Faculty Listing" .
^ William Speed Weed (13 Oct 2002). "Phony Science: Questions for Paul Ginsparg" . The New York Times .
^ Paul Ginsparg (1 October 2008). "The global-village pioneers". Learned Publishing . 22 (2): 95– 100. Bibcode :2008PhyW...21j..22G . doi :10.1087/2009203 .
^ Is Eternal Vigilance the Price of Freedom? (or Revenge of the Global Village Idiots) , a forthcoming invited address by Ginsparg at Wikimania 2006 , Cambridge, MA , August 4–6, 2006. NOTE: talk was cancelled due to controversial content.
^ Read as We May audio for a talk at the Emerging Libraries Conference at Rice University, Mar 6, 2007, 10:30-11:30AM.
^ Next-Generation Implications of Open Access Archived 2018-02-08 at the Wayback Machine for CTWatch Quarterly issue on "The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure", Aug 2007
^ Next-Generation Implications of Open Access video for a talk at the "Science in the 21st Century conference" at Perimeter Institute , Sep 9, 2008, 11:00-12:00AM.
^ "Paul Ginsparg Receives Award" . Physics Mathematics Astronomy Division of SLA. Archived from the original on 21 July 2010.
^ Bill Steele (23 September 2002). "Cornell professor Paul Ginsparg, science communication rebel, named a MacArthur Foundation fellow; three other alumni also receive 'genius award' fellowships" .
^ "arXiv Founder Paul Ginsparg Receives Paul Evan Peters Award from CNI, ARL, and EDUCAUSE" . 27 February 2006. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012.
^ Champion of Change
^ "White House honors Ginsparg for arXiv" . 19 June 2013.
^ Individual Award 2021
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