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 ...

Edward Witten, who many consider to be the founder of M-theory, a theory in physics that unifies superstring theory, believes a fleet of these craft could find the celestial object with relative ease.

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 ...

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.

03.07.2023 11:00 String theorist Edward Witten is awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics Sarah Bloch Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Joachim Herz Stiftung. The American physicist ...

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 ...

Edward Witten is professor emeritus at the institute and the physicist behind M-Theory, a leading contender for what is commonly referred to as ‘the theory of everything’, uniting quantum ...