# Leonard Susskind
**Domain:** Physics / Quantum Gravity
**Doc Type:** Thinker Node
**Maturity:** Evolving
**Related:** [[Gerard 't Hooft]], [[Holographic Principle]], [[Quantum Foundations]]
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## Definition
Leonard Susskind is an American theoretical physicist whose work helped formulate string theory and develop the holographic principle.
## Corpus Context
His paper [[The World as a Hologram]] gave a broad physical formulation to ideas anticipated by 't Hooft. [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] uses the work to keep informational ontology inside credentialed physics rather than free-floating metaphor.
## Key Insight
**This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.**
## See Also
[[Gerard 't Hooft]], [[Holographic Principle]], [[Quantum Foundations]]
## Sources / Provenance
- [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]