Life, the Universe and Everything: A String Theory Way

Scientist and author Dr. Howard Jeffrey Bender describes string theory and explains its potential scientific applications and how it might help us better understand our universe and ourselves.

Dr. Howard Jeffrey Bender has had a long career both in and supporting scientific research. He has a B.S. in science from Penn State University, an M.S. in computer science from Polytechnic Institute of New York, and a Ph.D. in education from the University of Maryland. At Penn State University he helped study Jupiter's Great Red Spot using radio astronomy and discovered a new variety of tin while assisting in high-pressure physics research. He did physical and chemical analyses at the U.S. Customs Laboratory in New York for three years, was a computer scientist at NASA for 13 years, and taught software engineering at the University of Maryland for 27 years.

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