Charles Thorn

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Charles Thorn
Born14 August 1946 (1946-08-14) (age 79)
Washington, Indiana, US
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
AwardsJesse W. Beams Medal, 2005
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 2026
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Florida
Doctoral advisorStanley Mandelstam
Doctoral studentsJian Qiu
Francisco Rojas
Sourav Raha

Charles Thorn (born 14 August 1946) is an American physicist who is a Professor of Physics at University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He played an important role in the development of dual models and string theory. Among his contributions is the proof of the non-existence of ghosts in string theory. The Goddard–Thorn theorem is a result about certain vector spaces in string theory. Thorn developed it with Peter Goddard.

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