PROFILE
String theorist and author of The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and a brilliant, entertaining communicator of cutting-edge scientific concepts. The Washington Post described him as “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today.”
In his national bestseller, The Elegant Universe, Greene recounted how the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics transformed our understanding of the universe, and introduced string theory, a concept that might be the key to a unified theory of the universe. The book sold more than a million copies and became an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning NOVA special that Greene hosted.
His second book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, spent six months on The New York Times Best Sellers list and was adapted into a four-part NOVA miniseries aired on PBS. Greene's latest New York Times bestseller, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, was published in January 2011.
His illustrated novella, Icarus at the Edge of Time, retells the Greek myth in a futuristic light. Greene and David Henry Hwang adapted the story to be a film and symphonic performance in collaboration with composer Philip Glass; the world debut was in the spring of 2010.
Brian Greene co-founded The World Science Festival in 2008. The annual event’s mission is to take science out of the laboratory, making the esoteric understandable and the familiar fascinating to the general public.
Called "a charismatic speaker" by Publishers Weekly, he considers lecturing "a form of performance,” and according to Newsweek, "Greene's theatrical lectures -- which include lots of metaphors, cool 3-d visuals and dry humor -- routinely draw hundreds." Greene has a knack for explaining complex theories in plain language and brings narrative tension and passion to his storytelling.
A graduate of Harvard and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Greene is a professor in both Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University. His work has appeared in Wired Magazine and The New York Times. He has appeared on a variety of programs, including Charlie Rose, Nightline and The Late Show with David Letterman, and made cameo appearances in the films Frequency, Maze, and The Last Mimzy. Greene appeared as himself in an April 2011 episode of the television show, The Big Bang Theory.
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“Brian Greene knocked the socks off the group.”
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