Max Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and belongs to the scientific directorate of the Foundational Questions Institute.
Tegmark was born as Max Shapiro in Sweden, son of Karin Tegmark and Harold S. Shapiro, studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and later received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. After having w...
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Max Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and belongs to the scientific directorate of the Foundational Questions Institute.
Tegmark was born as Max Shapiro in Sweden, son of Karin Tegmark and Harold S. Shapiro, studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and later received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. After having worked at the University of Pennsylvania, he is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey team, he has worked on data analysis, extracting the parameters of the Lambda-CDM model from observational large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background data.
He developed the quantum suicide thought experiment from earlier proposals by Hans Moravec and Bruno Marchal, and has come up with a mathematical argument for the multiverse.
He has also been a strong critic of those who would infer a theory of...
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