Professor Leonard Susskind, director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, is an internationally recognized physicist known as the "Father of String Theory." His achievements have earned him numerous prestigious awards, including the Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Particle Physics in 1997. The Alexander M. Cruickshank Endowed Lectureship was established in 1999. The subject of the lecture rotates among chemistry, physics, and biology. Sponsored by the URI Department of Physics, the URI College of Arts and Sciences, and the Gordon Research Conferences. Help us caption & translate this video! amara.org/v/CCA1/