Jacques Distler (born January 1, 1961) is a Canadian-born American physicist working in string theory.
Distler was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he attended Herzliah High School (Snowdon) along with noted Pediatric Researcher Daniel Wechsler.
[citation needed] He attended Harvard University, also with Dan Wechsler, for both his bachelors and doctorate in physics.
His earliest paper is Gauge Invariant Superstring Field Theory, co-authored with André LeClair and published in 1986 in Nuclear Physics B.
[citation needed] Distler maintains a webpage dedicated to his father, who was born in Poland and escaped the German slave camps of World War II.