Paul Ginsparg

Paul Henry Ginsparg is an American physicist. He developed the arXiv.org e-print archive.<ref name="arxiv20"/><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Education

He is a graduate of Syosset High School in Syosset, New York, on Long Island. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and from Cornell University with a Doctor of Philosophy in theoretical particle physics with a thesis titled Aspects of symmetry behavior in quantum field theory.

Career in physics

Ginsparg was a junior fellow and taught in the physics department at Harvard University until 1990.<ref name="radcliffe.edu">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The pre-print archive was developed while he was a member of staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990–2001. Since 2001, Ginsparg has been a professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He has published physics papers in the areas of quantum field theory, string theory, conformal field theory, and quantum gravity. He often comments on the changing world of physics in the Information Age.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Is Eternal Vigilance the Price of Freedom? (or Revenge of the Global Village Idiots), a forthcoming invited address by Ginsparg at Wikimania 2006, Cambridge, MA, August 4–6, 2006. NOTE: talk was cancelled due to controversial content.</ref><ref>Read as We MayTemplate:Dead link audio for a talk at the Emerging Libraries Conference at Rice University, Mar 6, 2007, 10:30-11:30AM.</ref><ref>Next-Generation Implications of Open Access Template:Webarchive for CTWatch Quarterly issue on "The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure", Aug 2007</ref><ref>Next-Generation Implications of Open Access video for a talk at the "Science in the 21st Century conference" at Perimeter Institute, Sep 9, 2008, 11:00-12:00AM.</ref>

Awards

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Ginsparg in 2025

He has been awarded the P.A.M. (Physics-Astronomy-Math) Award from the Special Libraries Association,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> named a Lingua Franca "Tech 20", elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> received the Council of Science Editors Award for Meritorious Achievement, and received the Paul Evans Peters Award from Educause, ARL, and CNI.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2008–2009.<ref name="radcliffe.edu"/> He was named a White House Champion of Change<ref>Champion of Change</ref> in June 2013.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was awarded with Einstein Foundation Award in 2021 for creating the arXiv.org.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

He has two children - a daughter, Miryam Ginsparg (b. 2000), and a son, Noam Ginsparg (b. 2004). His wife is Laura Jones, a mathematical biologist and researcher.

Publications

• "Creating a global knowledge network", UNESCO Expert Conference on Electronic Publishing in Science, Paris, 19–23 February 2001, Second Joint ICSU Press
• Fluctuating geometries in statistical mechanics and field theory, Editors François David, Paul Ginsparg, Jean Zinn-Justin, Elsevier, 1996, Template:ISBN
• "First Steps toward Electronic Research Communication", Gateways to knowledge: the role of academic libraries in teaching, learning, and research, Editor Lawrence Dowler, MIT Press, 1997, Template:ISBN
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External links

• eprints (co)-authored by Ginsparg at arXiv.org
• "Paul Ginsparg", Berlin 6 Open Access Conference
• Quick Study: Paul Ginsparg ’77, JF ’81, RI ’09