“Gravity is much smarter than anybody would have thought.”
Raphael Bousso is Professor and The Chancellor's Chair in Physics at UC Berkeley, where he studies quantum information, gravity, black holes, and cosmology. Bousso’s work has been featured in the New York Times and Scientific American. He has been interviewed by Alan Alda and Morgan Freeman, and he has appeared on television in the NOVA series and Through The Wormhole.
Bousso is committed to working on some of physics' greatest challenges. He is celebrated for discoveries such as the Bousso Bound on the information content of the universe, and the landscape of string theory. In 2012, Bousso was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society "for fundamental discoveries in the field of quantum cosmology."
"Brave enough, bold enough, and with clear enough vision, to have a chance of seeing the bigger picture." — Leonard Susskind