Editing Paul Ginsparg

{{short description|American physicist}}
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| birth_name        = Paul Henry Ginsparg
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| workplaces        = [[Harvard University]] <br/> [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] <br/> [[Cornell University]]
| alma_mater        = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|AB]])<br/>[[Cornell University]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Kenneth G. Wilson]]<ref name="arxiv20">{{cite arXiv |last=Ginsparg |first=Paul |eprint=1108.2700v1 |title=It was twenty years ago today.. |class= cs.DL|year=2011 }}</ref>
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| thesis_title      = Aspects of symmetry behavior in quantum field theory
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| thesis_year       = 1981
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| known_for         = [[ArXiv]] <br> [[Ginsparg–Wilson equation]] <br/>
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'''Paul Henry Ginsparg''' is an American [[physicist]].  He developed the [[arXiv.org e-print archive]].<ref name="arxiv20"/><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Ginsparg | first1 = P. | title = ArXiv at 20 | doi = 10.1038/476145a | journal = Nature | volume = 476 | issue = 7359 | pages = 145–147 | year = 2011 | pmid =  21833066|bibcode = 2011Natur.476..145G | s2cid = 4421407 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1137367|title=Literature in Focus: Paul Ginsparg|journal=Cern Bulletin|year=2008|publisher=CERN Document Server}}</ref>

==Education==
He is a graduate of [[Syosset High School]] in [[Syosset, New York]], on [[Long Island]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in physics and from [[Cornell University]] with a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in theoretical particle physics with a thesis titled ''Aspects of symmetry behavior in quantum field theory''.

==Career in physics==
Ginsparg was a junior fellow and taught in the physics department at [[Harvard University]] until 1990.<ref name="radcliffe.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2009pginsparg.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704184551/http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/about/news/2009ginsparg.aspx|archive-date=4 July 2010|url-status=dead|title=Quick Study: Paul Ginsparg '77, JF '81, RI '09}}</ref>
The pre-print archive was developed while he was a member of staff of [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], 1990&ndash;2001. Since 2001, Ginsparg has been a professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science at [[Cornell University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://physics.cornell.edu/paul-ginsparg|title=Paul Ginsparg - Cornell Department of Physics - Faculty Listing}}</ref>

He has published physics papers in the areas of [[quantum field theory]], [[string theory]], [[conformal field theory]], and [[quantum gravity]]. He often comments on the changing world of physics in the [[Information Age]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/magazine/13QUESTIONS.html|title=Phony Science: Questions for Paul Ginsparg|author=William Speed Weed|newspaper=The New York Times|date=13 Oct 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1087/2009203|title=The global-village pioneers|journal=Learned Publishing|volume=22|issue=2|pages=95–100|author=Paul Ginsparg|date=1 October 2008|bibcode=2008PhyW...21j..22G|doi-access=}}</ref><ref>[http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:PG2 Is Eternal Vigilance the Price of Freedom? (or Revenge of the Global Village Idiots)], a forthcoming invited address by Ginsparg at [http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania 2006], [[Cambridge, MA]], August 4–6, 2006. NOTE: talk was cancelled due to controversial content.</ref><ref>[http://webcast.rice.edu/webcast.php?action=details&event=919 Read as We May] audio for a talk at the Emerging Libraries Conference at Rice University, Mar 6, 2007, 10:30-11:30AM.</ref><ref>[http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/08/next-generation-implications-of-open-access/ Next-Generation Implications of Open Access] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208222846/http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/08/next-generation-implications-of-open-access/ |date=2018-02-08 }} for CTWatch Quarterly issue on "The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure", Aug 2007</ref><ref>[http://pirsa.org/07090080/ Next-Generation Implications of Open Access] video for a talk at the "Science in the 21st Century conference" at [[Perimeter Institute]], Sep 9, 2008, 11:00-12:00AM.</ref>

==Awards==
He has been awarded the P.A.M. (Physics-Astronomy-Math) Award from the [[Special Libraries Association]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://units.sla.org/division/dpam/manual/awards/ginsparg.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721073156/http://units.sla.org/division/dpam/manual/awards/ginsparg.html|archive-date=21 July 2010|title=Paul Ginsparg Receives Award|publisher=Physics Mathematics Astronomy Division of SLA|url-status=dead}}</ref> named a ''[[Lingua Franca (magazine)|Lingua Franca]]'' "Tech 20", elected as a Fellow of the [[American Physical Society]], awarded a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] in 2002,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/sept02/ginsparg-MacArthur.ws.html|title=Cornell professor Paul Ginsparg, science communication rebel, named a MacArthur Foundation fellow; three other alumni also receive 'genius award' fellowships|date=23 September 2002|author=Bill Steele}}</ref> received the [[Council of Science Editors]] Award for Meritorious Achievement, and received the Paul Evans Peters Award from [[Educause]], [[Association of Research Libraries|ARL]], and [[Coalition for Networked Information|CNI]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.educause.edu/About+EDUCAUSE/PressReleases/arXivFounderPaulGinspargReceiv/17095|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303022648/https://www.educause.edu/About+EDUCAUSE/PressReleases/arXivFounderPaulGinspargReceiv/17095|archive-date=3 March 2012|date=27 February 2006|title=arXiv Founder Paul Ginsparg Receives Paul Evan Peters Award from CNI, ARL, and EDUCAUSE}}</ref>
He was a [[Radcliffe Institute Fellow]] in 2008–2009.<ref name="radcliffe.edu"/>
He was named a White House Champion of Change<ref>[https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/champions Champion of Change]</ref> in June 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/06/white-house-honors-ginsparg-arxiv|title=White House honors Ginsparg for arXiv|date=19 June 2013}}</ref> He was awarded with [[Einstein Foundation Award]] in 2021 for creating the arXiv.org.<ref>[https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/award/recipients/paul-ginsparg/ Individual Award 2021]</ref>

==Personal life==
He has two children - a daughter, Miryam Ginsparg (b. 2000), and a son, Noam Ginsparg (b. 2004). His wife is Laura Jones, a [[Mathematical and theoretical biology|mathematical biologist]] and researcher.

==Publications==
*[http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ginsparg/physics/blurb/pg01unesco.html "Creating a global knowledge network"], ''[[UNESCO]] Expert Conference on Electronic Publishing in Science'', Paris, 19–23 February 2001, Second Joint ICSU Press
*''Fluctuating geometries in statistical mechanics and field theory'', Editors François David, Paul Ginsparg, Jean Zinn-Justin, [[Elsevier]], 1996, {{ISBN|978-0-444-82294-9}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=MiVkn7FqAvsC&pg=PA43 "First Steps toward Electronic Research Communication"], ''Gateways to knowledge: the role of academic libraries in teaching, learning, and research'', Editor Lawrence Dowler, [[MIT Press]], 1997, {{ISBN|978-0-262-04159-1}}
*{{Cite journal 
| last1 = Ginsparg | first1 = P. 
| title = As We May Read 
| doi = 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3161-06.2006 
| journal = Journal of Neuroscience 
| volume = 26 
| issue = 38 
| pages = 9606–9608 
| year = 2006 
| pmid = 16988030 
| pmc = 6674456
}}
*{{Cite journal 
| last1 = Ginsparg | first1 = P. 
| last2 = Houle | first2 = P. 
| last3 = Joachims | first3 = T. 
| last4 = Sul | first4 = J. 
| doi = 10.1073/pnas.0308253100 
| title = Mapping subsets of scholarly information 
| journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 
| volume = 101 
| pages = 5236–5240 
| year = 2004 
| issue = Suppl 1 
| pmid = 14766973 
| pmc =387301 
|arxiv = cs/0312018 |bibcode = 2004PNAS..101.5236G | doi-access = free 
}}
*{{Cite journal 
| doi = 10.1126/science.281.5382.1459 
| last1 = Bachrach | first1 = S. 
| last2 = Berry | first2 = R. 
| last3 = Blume | first3 = M. 
| last4 = Von Foerster | first4 = T. 
| last5 = Fowler | first5 = A. 
| last6 = Ginsparg | first6 = P. 
| last7 = Heller | first7 = S. 
| last8 = Kestner | first8 = N. 
| last9 = Odlyzko | first9 = A. 
| last10 = Okerson | first10 = A. 
| last11 = Wigington | first11 = R. 
| last12 = Moffat | first12 = A. 
| title = Who should own scientific papers? 
| journal = Science 
| volume = 281 
| issue = 5382 
| pages = 1459–1460 
| year = 1998 
| pmid = 9750115
|bibcode = 1998Sci...281.1459B | s2cid = 36290551 }}
*{{Cite journal 
| last1 = Freedman | first1 = D. 
| last2 = Ginsparg | first2 = P. 
| last3 = Sommerfield | first3 = C. 
| last4 = Warner | first4 = N. 
| title = String-ghost interactions and the trace anomaly 
| journal = Physical Review D 
| volume = 36 
| issue = 6 
| pages = 1800–1818 
| year = 1987 
| pmid = 9958364 | doi=10.1103/physrevd.36.1800
|bibcode = 1987PhRvD..36.1800F }}
*{{Cite journal 
| last1 = Ginsparg | first1 = P. 
| title = On toroidal compactification of heterotic superstrings 
| journal = Physical Review D 
| volume = 35 
| issue = 2 
| pages = 648–654 
| year = 1987 
| pmid = 9957701
| doi=10.1103/physrevd.35.648
| bibcode = 1987PhRvD..35..648G }}

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[https://arxiv.org/find/all/1/au:+ginsparg_p/0/1/0/all/0/1 eprints (co)-authored by Ginsparg] at arXiv.org
*[https://www.slideshare.net/berlin6/berlin-6-open-access-conference-paul-ginsparg-presentation "Paul Ginsparg"], ''Berlin 6 Open Access Conference''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100617213059/http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/news/2009ginsparg.aspx Quick Study: Paul Ginsparg ’77, JF ’81, RI ’09]

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