Safi R. Bahcall is an American physicist, technologist, business executive, and author. He received his B.
A. in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 1988, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to earn a Ph.
D. in physics from Stanford University in 1995, where his research focused on superconductivity, random matrix theory, the quantum hall effect, and particle astrophysics.