Cumrun Vafa
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 63 |
| Date of birth | August 1,1960 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Tehran |
| Iran | |
| Spouse | Afarin Sadr |
| Known for | Vafa–Witten theorem |
| Gopakumar–Vafa invariant | |
| F-theory | |
| Mirror symmetry | |
| Swampland | |
| Weak gravity conjecture | |
| Job | Physicist |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Princeton University | |
| Alborz High School | |
| Mandegar Alborz High School | |
| Awards | Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics |
| Physics Frontiers Prize | |
| Official site | cumrunvafa.org |
| Field | Theoretical physics |
| Doctor student | Freddy Cachazo; Andrew Neitzke; Eric Zaslow |
| Freddy Cachazo | |
| Andrew Neitzke | |
| Eric Zaslow | |
| Doctor advisor | Edward Witten |
| Books | Mirror Symmetry |
| Puzzles to Unravel the Universe | |
| Winter School on Mirror Symmetry, Vector Bundles, and Lagrangian Submanifolds: Proceedings of the Winter School on Mirror Symmetry, January 1999, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
| Academic advisor | Edward Witten |
| Nationality | American |
| Iranian | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 543850 |
Cumrun Vafa Life story
Cumrun Vafa is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University.
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