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American physicist
Paul Henry Ginsparg (born January 1, 1955) is an American
physicist . He developed the
arXiv.org e-print archive .
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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
Ph.D. 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.
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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He was a
Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2008–2009.
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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.
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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 : 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
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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 .
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"Literature in Focus: Paul Ginsparg" . Cern Bulletin . CERN Document Server. 2008.
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a
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"Quick Study: Paul Ginsparg '77, JF '81, RI '09" . Archived from
the original on 4 July 2010.
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"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 .
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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.
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Read as We May audio for a talk at the Emerging Libraries Conference at Rice University, Mar 6, 2007, 10:30-11:30AM.
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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
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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.
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"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" .
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"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.
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Champion of Change
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"White House honors Ginsparg for arXiv" . 19 June 2013.
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Individual Award 2021
External links
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