Paul Ginsparg

Paul Ginsparg is a physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv.org e-print archive. Since 2001 he has been a professor at Cornell University. The pre-print archive was developed while he was a member of staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990–2001.

For his work on the archive he has been awarded the PAM Award from the Special Libraries Association and in 2002 a MacArthur Fellowship.

He has published physics papers in the areas of quantum field theory, string theory, conformal field theory, and quantum gravity.

Quotes

"The problem with the global village is all the global village idiots."