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Paul Ginsparg received a B.A. in Physics from Harvard Univ in '77, and a
doctorate in theoretical particle physics from Cornell Univ in '81. He was
in the Harvard Society of Fellows from '81-'84, then assistant and
associate professor in the physics dept at Harvard Univ until 1990. From
1990-2001, he worked as a research staff member in the theoretical division
of Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2001, he returned to Cornell
University as a Professor of Physics and Computing and Information Science.

He is the author of many papers in quantum field theory, string theory,
conformal field theory, and quantum gravity, and editor of many conference
proceedings and summer schools. In 1991, he started the e-print archives at
Los Alamos.  ("arXiv.org" formerly "xxx.lanl.gov")
He has also served on the US National Committee for CODATA
(studying issues in the transborder flow of scientific data), a number of
other N.R.C., N.A.S., and AAAS committees, and currently serves on the NIH
PubMedCentral national advisory board, on the American Physical Society
publications oversight committee, and on the Cornell University faculty
library board.

In 1998, he received the P.A.M. (physics astronomy mathematics) award from
the Special Libraries Association, in 2000 was selected as a Fellow of the
American Physical Society "for outstanding contributions to physics", and
in 2002 received a MacArthur fellowship.