Talk:Thomas Faulkner (physicist)

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it is about a person who has worked (arxiv.org/1303.7221) on proving the Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture for AdS/CFT, which if proved fully, shows, among other things, that String Theory predicts the entropy of Black-Holes. Theorist1729 (talk) 02:40, 26 December 2014 (UTC)


 * A professor with a tenured position at a significant academic institution meets WP:PROF, and therefore a claim to that is easily sufficient to clear A7. Tag removed. All we need is a source verifying the post and the notability tag can go as well. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  20:48, 26 December 2014 (UTC)


 * At WP:AFD, we sometimes hold that a full professor is probably notable, but I think the current situation is one of a tenure-track assistant professor position. WP:PROF gives presumed notability to tenured distinguished professors or holders of named chairs at schools with a reputation for excellence or selectivity. I agree that A7 is probably not appropriate, but I think that notability concerns remain and I'm not sure how this one would fare if taken to AFD. EricEnfermero (Talk) 03:54, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Tom was a member of the Institute of Advanced study, here's his profile : https://www.ias.edu/people/cos/users/11404), sharing the position with Edward Witten, Juan Maldacena, Nima Arkani-Hamed and several others.Theorist1729 (talk) 04:03, 27 December 2014 (UTC)