Cumrun Vafa

Cumrun Vafa is a physicist and recipient of both the prestigious Dirac Medal and the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He is author of the forthcoming book ‘Unraveling the Universe with Puzzles’ and recently released a paper titled ‘String Landscape and the Swampland’ in which he makes a case for string theory being able to account for the nature of the universe that we live in.