Michael R. Douglas (1961-) is an American theoretical physicist and professor currently at Stony Brook University. Michael R. Douglas was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Nancy and Ronald G. Douglas, a mathematician specializing in operator algebras. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University. He then went to Caltech and received a Ph.D. in physics in 1988 under John Schwarz, one of the inventors and leading researchers in superstring theory. Image:Cscr-featured.png