BIOGRAPHY

Paul Ginsparg
ginsparg@cornell.edu

Paul Ginsparg received a B.A. in Physics from Harvard Univ in '77, and a doctorate in theoretical particle physics from Cornell Univ in '81. He was in the Harvard Society of Fellows from '81-'84, then assistant and associate professor in the physics dept at Harvard Univ before becoming research staff member in the theoretical division of Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1990.

He is the author of many papers in quantum field theory, string theory, conformal field theory, and quantum gravity, and editor of many conference proceedings and summer schools. In 1991, he started the e-print archives at Los Alamos.He has also served on the US National Committee for CODATA sponsored by the US National Research Council and Int'l Council of Scientific Unions (studying issues in the transborder flow of scientific data), a number of other N.R.C., N.A.S., and AAAS committees, and currently serves on the NIH PubMedCentral "national advisory board", and on the American Physical Society task force on electronic information systems.

In 1998 he received the P.A.M. (physics astronomy math) award from the Special Libraries Association, and was elected in Nov 2000 as a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for outstanding contributions to physics".

In 2001, he returned to Cornell University as a Professor of Physics and Computing and Information Science.