Gary T. Horowitz (born April 14, 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory and quantum gravity.
[2] In 1985 Horowitz published an influential paper with Philip Candelas, Andrew Strominger and Edward Witten on the compactification of superstrings in Calabi-Yau spaces.
[3] In the early 1990s, Horowitz and Strominger found black brane solutions in string theory.
[4] Horowitz also works on the AdS/CFT correspondence and (together with Sean Hartnoll and Chris Herzog) discovered holographic superconductors.
[5] In 1982 Horowitz and M. Perry won first prize in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition.