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.