Brian Greene

Brian Greene is an American physicist known for research on string theory, and a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, where Greene directs the center for theoretical physics. The World Science Festival, co-founded in 2008, is chaired by Greene. Four popular books, among them The Elegant Universe (1999) and The Fabric of the Cosmos (2004), reached the top 10 of the New York Times bestseller list. Two NOVA miniseries based on these books, which won Emmy and Peabody awards, featured Greene as host.