Professor
Jeffrey A. Harvey
University of Chicago
Physicist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Physics
Elected
2004
Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor and Chair, Department of Physics. Codiscoverer of the heterotic string, a milestone in the quest for a unified theory of the laws of nature. Brought clarity to the nature of and interrelations among string theories through work on compactification, notably on orbifolds, and by elucidating the role of string solitons and instantons.