Raphael Bousso
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| Born | 1971 (age 54–55) Haifa, Israel |
| Education | University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Known for | Bousso bound String theory landscape |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Physical Society (2012) Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2026) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics, cosmology, quantum gravity |
| Workplaces | University of California, Berkeley Stanford University Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Harvard University |
| Thesis | Pair creation of black holes in cosmology (1997) |
| Stephen Hawking | |
Raphael Bousso (/ˈbuːsoʊ/) (born 1971) is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is a professor at UC Berkeley, where he holds the Chancellor's Chair in Physics. He is known for the Bousso bound on the information content of the universe. With Joseph Polchinski, Bousso proposed the string theory landscape as a solution to the cosmological constant problem.