String theory pioneer Edward Witten has won the 2010 Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics for “his many profound contributions that have transformed areas of particle theory, quantum field ...

The American physicist Edward Witten will be awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2023. He is being recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to a unified mathematical description ...

Edward Witten is so softly spoken that his voice sometimes threatens to drift away completely. His desk is a jumble of papers and his blackboard a mess of equations. But his hushed words come straight ...

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He is the pre-eminent physicist in the US, the king of string theory, but the soft-spoken Prof Edward Witten is content to let… He is the pre-eminent physicist in the US, the king of string theory, ...

When I met Edward Witten—one of two physicists on Prospect's world thinkers list—at CERN in Geneva some years ago he chatted genially enough in his rapid, precise and high-pitched sentences, and yet ...

Witten is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where Einstein worked from 1933 until his death in 1955. He is the leading exponent of “M theory,” a version of string theory ...

Edward Witten is an American physicist who specialises in String Theory, Quantum Gravity and Supersymmetric Field Theories. He is the only physicist who has so far received the Fields Medal, one of ...

Today the American physicist Edward Witten was awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. He was recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to a unified mathematical description of ...

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