Michael Boris Green FRS HonFInstP (born 22 May 1946) is a British physicist and a pioneer of string theory.
He attended William Ellis School in London and Churchill College, Cambridge[2] where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours in theoretical physics (1967) and a PhD in elementary particle theory (1970).
Green has also worked on Dirichlet boundary conditions in string theory which have led to the postulation of D-branes[13] and instantons.
These definitive papers initiated the explosive growth of superstring theory, now one of the most active and exciting areas of fundamental theoretical physics.
[15]On 12 December 2013, Michael Green shared the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with John Henry Schwarz "for opening new perspectives on quantum gravity and the unification of forces".