During a visit this fall, I spotted Witten on the Institute’s central lawn and requested an interview; in his quick, alto voice, he said he couldn’t promise to be able to answer my questions but would ...

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 ...

On Friday I took the train up to London to learn about “the theory that nobody wanted”. That’s how Cambridge University’s Michael Green described string theory in his introduction to a lecture of the ...

A physicist said he would probably donate part of the $3 million he won in a surprise award to J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group. Edward Witten, a professor of mathematical physics at the ...

Albert Einstein labored unsuccessfully for decades to create a theory that would merge relativity and quantum physics into one tidy mathematical package. But where Einstein failed, physicists may ...

The Life Scientific returns with a special episode from the USA; Princeton, New Jersey, to be precise. Here, the Institute for Advanced Study has hosted some of the greatest scientific minds of our ...

Edward Witten is an American mathematical physicist who is widely considered to be the founder of M-theory. He is a graduate of Brandeis University where he received his bachelor’s degree and ...

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