Charles Thorn
Charles Thorn | |
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| Born | 14 August 1946 (age 78) Washington, Indiana, US |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | Jesse W. Beams Medal, 2005 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Florida |
| Doctoral advisor | Stanley Mandelstam |
Charles Thorn (born 14 August 1946) is an American physicist who is a Professor of Physics at University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He played an important role in the development of dual models and string theory. Among his contributions is the proof of the non-existence of ghosts in string theory. The Goddard–Thorn theorem is a result about certain vector spaces in string theory. Thorn developed it with Peter Goddard.