Background
Motl was born in Plzeň, present-day Czechoslovakian Republic.
Motl was born in Plzeň, present-day Czechoslovakian Republic.
He received his master"s degree from the Charles University in Prague, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Rutgers University and has been a Harvard Junior Fellow (2001–2004) and assistant professor (2004–2007) at Harvard University.
His scientific publications are focused on string theory. In 2007, he left Harvard and returned to the Czechoslovakian Republic. Despite being an undergraduate at a Czechoslovakian university where none of the faculty specialized in string theory, Motl came to the attention of a noted string theorist, Professor Thomas Banks, in 1996 when he "scooped" Banks with an arXiv posting on matrix string theory.
"I was at first a little annoyed by paper, because it scooped me," said Banks.
He is the author of L"équation Bogdanov, a 2008 French-language book discussing the scientific ideas and controversy of the Bogdanov brothers. He writes a science and politics blog called "Luboš Motl"s Reference Frame," which has been described as an "over-the-top" defense of string theory.
"This feeling turned to awe when I realized that Lubos was still an undergraduate." While at Harvard, Motl worked on the pp-wave limit of AdS/CFT correspondence, twistor theory and its application to gauge theory with supersymmetry, black hole thermodynamics and the conjectured relevance of quasinormal modes for loop quantum gravity, deconstruction, and other topics.
Quotations: "I was at first a little annoyed by paper, because it scooped me,".