Herman Verlinde

Dutch physicist

Herman Verlinde
Born	21 January 1962 (1962-01-21) (age 62) Woudenberg
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	Utrecht University
Known for	Matrix string theory
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Princeton University
Thesis	The path-integral formulation of supersymmetric string theory (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Gerard 't Hooft

Herman Louis Verlinde (born 21 January 1962) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics at Princeton University, where he is also the chair of the Department of Physics.^[1] He is the identical twin brother of Erik Verlinde.