Juan Maldacena is an Argentine theoretical physicist renowned for his significant contributions to string theory and quantum gravity. He is perhaps best known for formulating the Maldacena duality, also known as the AdS/CFT correspondence, in 1997. This groundbreaking theoretical result posits a relationship between a type of string theory defined in a higher-dimensional space (Anti-de Sitter space) and a conformal field theory defined on the boundary of that space.
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