Fernando Quevedo
Fernando Quevedo | |
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| Born | May 12, 1956 |
| Citizenship | Guatemala and Spain |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala |
| Known for | S-duality |
| Awards | ICTP Prize (1998) Abdus Salam Medal (2017) John Wheatley Prize (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Topics in supergravity and superstring phenomenology (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Steven Weinberg |
Fernando Quevedo Rodríguez (born 12 May 1956 in San José, Costa Rica) is a Guatemalan physicist and obtained his early education in Guatemala. He was the director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) between October 2009 and November 2019. With Anamaría Font, Luis E. Ibáñez, and Dieter Lüst, he proposed a weak-strong duality conjecture which introduced the concept of S-duality in 1990.