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Paul Ginsparg

Professor of Information Science and Physics
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Paul Ginsparg is a professor of information science and physics. Among his many awards and honors, Ginsparg is a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, the American Physical Society, the Alfred P. Sloane Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute, and is a recipient of the Einstein Foundation Berlin Award and the Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics. He is the founder of arXiv, the preeminent open-access, preprint repository. Ginsparg received an A.B. in physics from Harvard in 1977 and a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell in 1981. He joined the Cornell faculty in 2001. 

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(607) 255-7371
Ginsparg@cornell.edu
Location
Ithaca
Office
Gates Hall 242
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MacArthur Fellow

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Paul Ginsparg
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  • 2002

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Einstein Foundation Berlin Award for Promoting Quality in Research

Einstein Foundation
Paul Ginsparg
  • Research
  • 2021

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The Atlantic
The Atlantic highlights the recent work by Ginsparg on the rise of AI-generated scientific papers
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$7M grant from NASA, Schmidt Sciences to upgrade arXiv
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National Academy of Sciences honors Bala and Ginsbarg
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