Joel Scherk

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Joël Scherk (often cited as Joel Scherk) was a physicist who studied string theory. Together with John Schwarz, they figured out that string theory was a theory of quantum gravity in 1974.

In 1979, Scherk committed suicide after a split with his wife.

The high-energy theory library of the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique at École Normale Supérieure (Paris), is dedicated in his honor.

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