Michael Green (physicist)
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Michael Boris Green (born 22 May 1946) is a physicist who is one of the pioneers of string theory.
After many years in collaboration with John Schwarz, they discovered the anomaly cancellation in type I string theory in 1984. This insight initiated the First Superstring Revolution. He has also worked on Dirichlet boundary conditions in string theory which led to the discovery of D-branes.
He is a professor at Cambridge University in England. Green has an h-index of 80. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989.
For other people with this name, see Michael Green.