A. Douglas Stone is the Carl Morse Professor of Applied Physics and Physics at Yale University. He is a theoretical physicist who has done award-winning research on the quantum properties of nanoscale electronic devices and on the fundamental theory of microlasers, including the invention of the “anti-laser.” In addition to a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT, he holds degrees in social studies from Harvard and in physics and philosophy from Oxford. He is the author of Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian (Princeton University Press, 2013).