Nathan Seiberg completed his undergraduate education in 1977 at Tel-Aviv University and received his PhD from The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in 1982.
He spent several years as a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and was a Professor of Physics at The Weizmann Institute of Science and at Rutgers University. Currently he is a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
In 1996 Seiberg was awarded The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and in 1998 the Dannie Heineman Prize of the American Physical Society.
Nathan Seiberg's work focuses on various aspects of string theory, field theory and particle physics. During the last years he has found with various collaborators exact solutions of supersymmetric quantum field theories and string theories. These solutions have applications to mathematics, and to the dynamics of quantum field theories and string theory leading to many new and unexpected insights. One of them is the fundamental role played by the "duality" between electricity and magnetism in these theories.
The University of Texas at Austin