Presidential Young Investigator Award: Theoretical Physics

将对基本粒子理论进行研究， 以及宇宙学和天体物理学的相关领域。 粒子理论工作的一个重点是 在弦中，传统粒子的点粒子 理论被具有微小形式的扩展对象所取代 字符串. 宇宙学的研究可能包括诸如 重子数的宇宙学起源，以及天文学中的重子数， 物理学的一些课题，如研究磁场的相互作用， 与中子星形成单极子 这项研究将由一位杰出的 年轻的理论物理学家，他是新总统之一， 1987年的青年调查员。

Research will be done on the theory of elementary particles, and related areas of cosmology and astrophysics. One focus of the work in particle theory will be the theory of strings, in which the point particles of conventional particle theories are replaced by extended objects having the form of tiny strings. The research in cosmology may include such topics as the cosmological origin of the baryon number, and that in astro- physics such topics as the study of interaction of the magnetic monopoles with neutron stars. The research will be carried out by a highly-distinguished young theoretical physicist who is one of the new Presidential Young Investigators for 1987.