| Henry Lin | |
| Birth Place: | Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Princeton University |
Henry Wanjune Lin (born 1995) is an American student who won the $50,000 Intel Young Scientist award, the second-highest award at the 2013 Intel Science and Engineering Fair for his work with MIT professor Michael McDonald on simulations of galaxy clusters.[1] In 2015, he was named one of Forbes' 30 under 30 scientists.[2]
He is a 2012 alumnus of the Research Science Institute and a 2013 alumnus of the International Summer School for Young Physicists (ISSYP) at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. In November 2013, he gave a TED talk on clusters of galaxies in New Orleans, LA.[3]
Together with Harvard astronomy chair Abraham Loeb and atmospheric scientist Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Lin proposed a novel way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence by targeting exoplanets with industrial pollution.[4] [5] [6] Lin's unconventional work also includes proposing a statistical theory of human population[7] which explains Zipf's Law and proposing a novel test for panspermia in the galaxy.[8]
He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University[9] after receiving his PhD at Princeton University under Juan Maldacena. His dissertation focused on understanding the interior of black holes in quantum gravity.[10]