Edward Witten is a revered string theorist and, quite possibly, the smartest person alive. “The arXiv enabled much more rapid worldwide communication among physicists,” Witten wrote to me in ...

Dyson — a mathematics prodigy who came to this country at 23 and right away contributed seminal work to physics by unifying quantum and electrodynamic theory — not only did path-breaking science of ...

In March 2009, The New York Times wrote a lengthy piece about renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, then 85. Four years earlier, Dyson began publicly to express doubts about the global warming or ...

Willerslev was visiting Montreal to receive a science prize from the World Cultural Council—one previously given to the string theorist Edward Witten and the astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gaitsgory explained another potential significance for science: physicists Anton Kapustin and Edward Witten independently realized that the geometric Langlands conjecture was a consequence of quantum ...

“It is such a vast subject that few can really have an overview,” wrote theoretical physicist Edward Witten in 2007. “Despite all the hard work, I personally only understand a tiny bit of ...

Physicist Edward Witten on M-Theory, the leading contender for a 'theory of everything'. Show more Download Choose your file Higher quality (128kbps) Lower quality (64kbps) Available now 26 minutes ...

Edward Witten has been the recipient of many awards, including being the first physicist to ever receive the Fields Medal in 1990. The Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics ...

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 ...