It is one of the all-time top cited papers in theoretical high-energy physics, and is commonly known, along with Edward Witten's 1998 work Anti De Sitter Space And Holography, as the GKPW dictionary.
[4] Gubser's later works concern various aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence, including its applications in quantum chromodynamics and condensed matter physics.
In 2016 he and collaborators proposed a p-adic version of AdS/CFT correspondence whose bulk geometry is a tree graph.
As a high school student in 1989, Gubser was the first American to be grand winner (ranked first among all gold medalists) of the International Physics Olympiad.
[7][8][1] Grubser was climbing Aiguille du Peigne "Comb Needle" on the Mont Blanc massif, when a rope broke and he fell to his death.