Princeton, N.J. — Edward Witten, who may be the smartest man in the world, seems slightly puzzled by the question put to him: How, his interrogator wants to know, would he describe a typical … ...

The sole physicist ever to win the Fields Medal, mathematics’ premier prize, Witten is also known for discovering M-theory, the leading candidate for a unified physical “theory of everything.” A ...

Many physicists consider Ed Witten to be Einstein's true successor. A mathematical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Witten has been awarded everything from a ...

Ed Witten has been called “the most brilliant physicist of his generation.” Some, not content with this accolade, have compared him to Isaac Newton. Witten is a deeply original and committed ...

Witten once called string theory “a bit of 21st century physics that somehow dropped into the 20th century.” If so, Witten clearly has the 21st century mind to handle it. –By Michael Lemonick ...

Now, the famous theoretical physicist Edward Witten has published a paper on how to track down this specter haunting our outer solar system: a fleet of tiny probes, pushed via lasers to a ...

Ask Dr. Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey what he does all day, and it's difficult to get a straight answer. "There isn't a clear task," Witten told CNN.

Before it was published, the notion of a holographic universe was “way out there”, says Ed Witten, a mathematical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton (IAS), New Jersey.

09.11.2023 10:50 Edward Witten is awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics Sarah Bloch Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Joachim Herz Stiftung. Today the American physicist Edward Witten ...

Physicist Edward Witten speaks to Jim Al-Khalili about his work on M-Theory, a leading contender for 'the theory of everything'. Show more The Life Scientific returns with a special episode from ...

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 ...