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	Edward Witten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.
		Edward Witten was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Lorraine W. Witten and Louis Witten, a physicist specializing in gravitation and general relativity.
		Witten was mentioned in a 1999 episode of the cartoon Futurama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Witten (571 words)

	NOVA \| The Elegant Universe \| Edward Witten \| PBS
		Witten: String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
		Witten: Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
		Witten: Back in the early '70s, the Italian physicist, Daniele Amati reportedly said that string theory was part of 21st-century physics that fell by chance into the 20th century.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/elegant/view-witten.html (2676 words)

	Big Ideas. Big Thinkers. Edward Witten \| Thirteen/WNET
		Edward Witten, the Charles Simonyi Professor of Mathematical Physics in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists.
		Professor Witten is one of the principal authors of string theory, the framework with which physicists have sought to unify quantum mechanics with gravity.
		Edward Witten was born in 1951 and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1976.
	www.thirteen.org /bigideas/witten.html (467 words)

	Zephic Productions: Writing Sample
		Witten, born on August 26, 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland, is the son of a gravitational physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Cincinnati.
		Witten has said that researching string theory is perfect for his abilities, since he believes it will "require a lot of new mathematics" and that "applying bizarre mathematics to physics is what [he's] good at." In 1985, he published 19 papers on string theory, also winning the Einstein Award, among others.
		Witten had a major breakthrough in his string theory research in 1994, announcing that he and a colleague at Rutgers University had found a way to simplify the incredibly complex mathematics of quarks by assuming the existence of a particular kind of supersymmetry.
	www.zephic.com /mathsample.html (933 words)

	Witten biography
		The first major contribution which led to Witten's Fields Medal was his simpler proof of the positive mass conjecture which had led to a Fields Medal for Yau in 1982.
		It is a measure of Witten's mastery of the field that he has been able to make intelligent and skilful use of this difficult point of view in much of his subsequent work.
		Witten described these in terms of the invariants of Donaldson and Floer (extending the earlier ideas of Atiyah) and generalised the Jones knot polynomial...
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Witten.html (900 words)

	Fundamental Forces
		Witten is renowned for his contributions to String Theory -; the framework physicists have sought to unify the four fundamental forces of nature into one mathematical picture.
		Witten is the Charles Simonyi Professor of Mathematical Physics in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, a private, independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry.
		Witten is the recipient of many honors and awards, including mathematics’; highest prize, the Fields Medal, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Einstein Medal, the Dirac Medal and the Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation.
	www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/10188.html (452 words)

	Previous Recipients, Nemmers Prizes, Office of the Provost, Northwestern University
		Edward Witten is professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
		Witten’s work on the related idea of topological quantum field theory — which allows physicists to find connections between seemingly unrelated equationsÐtogether with many achievements in mathematics inspired by insights from physics earned Witten the prestigious Fields Medal in 1990, the highest honor awarded to a mathematician under age 40.
		Witten is the leading theorist on the most enigmatic problem of theoretical physics the mathematical incompatibility of the foundation pillars of quantum mechanics and the General Theory of Relativity.
	www.northwestern.edu /provost/awards/nemmers/nemprmath.html (2150 words)

	Luboš Motl's reference frame: Witten and Langlands
		It may be fair to say that Edward Witten is probably not only the holy father of theoretical high energy physics - using the term invented by Friedwardt Winterberg - but quite possibly also the most respected mathematician in the world as of 2005.
		If you have any doubts that Edward Witten, a leading figure of string theory, has figured out important insights that have been experimentally verified, open the "fast comments" and see examples from a reader whose name happens to be Peter Woit.
		Witten's talk has shown many things - and one of them is the fact that these "lit crits" have not only an insufficient understanding of string theory but also an outdated idea about topological field theory.
	motls.blogspot.com /2005/12/witten-and-langlands.html (937 words)

	Witten at 50
		Edward Witten -- the man who has often been described as the Isaac Newton of the modern age -- celebrates his fiftieth birthday on Saturday 26 August this year.
		In addition to the Fields Medal, physicist Witten has been invited to give two major addresses at national meetings of the American Mathematical Society: he was AMS Colloquium Lecturer in 1987 and three years ago, in 1998, he gave the Gibbs Lecture.
		On several occasions, Witten has made a discovery -- a physicist's discovery since it is technically not a mathematical discovery -- that mathematicians subsequently showed to be "correct" by the traditional means of formulating a rigorous proof.
	www.maa.org /devlin/devlin_7_01.html (1529 words)

	Clay Mathematics Institute
		The 2001 Clay Research Award to Edward Witten recognizes, "a lifetime of achievement, especially for pointing the way to unify apparently disparate fields of mathematics and to discover their elegant simplicity through links with the physical world." A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Witten is Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
		Trained as a physicist, Witten became well-known for his discovery of new instanton solutions to the Yang-Mills equations and for relating super-symmetric quantum mechanics to Morse theory and index theory.
		The early contributions of Witten are summarized in: Michael Atiyah, On the work of Edward Witten, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Kyoto, 1990 I (Tokyo, 1991), 31-35 L D Faddeev, On the work of Edward Witten, Addresses on the works of Fields medalists and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize winner (Tokyo, 1990).
	www.claymath.org /research_award/Witten (267 words)

	On the right track
		A Professor at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, Witten's own work, prior to 1984, on the internal consistency of the various models of the unification of fundamental forces then current, laid the foundation for the paper by Professors Michael Green and John Schwarz that brought string theory centre stage in theor etical high-energy physics.
		In 1995, Witten's path-breaking paper that drew on the scattered insights of other physicists including India's Ashoke Sen, on the so-called duality symmetries of string theory, signalled the beginning of a new phase in the development of string theory, setting themes and directions that still dominate the discipline.
		Witten, you have described string theory as "a piece of 21st century physics that happened to fall into the 20th century".
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl1803/18030830.htm (1529 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Edward Witten -- Apr. 26, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But where Einstein failed, physicists may finally be on the verge of success, largely thanks to Edward Witten, generally considered the greatest theoretical physicist in the world.
		But if Witten's string theory is right, it means that the quest Einstein began to find the ultimate laws of the universe may nearly be over.
		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.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,994019,00.html (378 words)

	Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Duality, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics
		In the last few years, physicists have learned that the different string theories discovered and studied in different ways are limiting cases of a single, more powerful theory, known as M theory.
		Edward Witten, professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., is arguably the premier theoretical physicist of our time.
		Renowned for his many contributions to particle physics and string theory, Witten has almost single-handedly constructed a new branch of mathematical physics For his achievements, he has been awarded mathematics' highest prize, the 1990 Fields Medal.
	online.itp.ucsb.edu /online/plecture/witten (177 words)

	CNN.com - Physics' sharpest mind since Einstein - Jun 30, 2005
		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.
		The 53-year-old is a former recipient of both a MacArthur Fellowship, sometimes called the "genius grant," and the Fields Award, mathematics' equivalent of a Nobel prize.
		The most promising avenue of inquiry appears to be superstring theory, which holds that the fundamental particles of the universe are vibrating loops.
	www.cnn.com /2005/TECH/science/06/27/witten.physics/index.html (811 words)

	String fellows - [interview with string theorist Edward Witten] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward Witten is so softly spoken that his voice sometimes threatens to drift away completely.
		In his role as de facto scientist-in-chief of string theory, Witten, the Charles Simonyi professor of mathematical physics at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, is undoubtedly the heir to Albert Einstein's title of greatest living physicist.
		Witten can indulge even his most esoteric ideas, a freedom afforded, in part, by the IAS, an almost unique research institute based in what looks like a serene stately home in front of an 800-acre forest in Princeton.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1325427/posts (3684 words)

	CTQM: CTQM Nielsen and CTN Lindhard Lectures
		Edward Witten holds the Charles Simonyi chair at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
		He is one of the world's leading researchers in string theory (as the founder of M-theory) and quantum field theory and he has been honored with numerous awards, including a MacArthur Grant, an Einstein Medal, a Klein Medal, a Fields Medal, a Dirac Medal, a Clay Research Award and the National Medal of Science.
		Edward Witten will be the first speaker in this series.
	www.ctqm.au.dk /LLEW (244 words)

	About the Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward Witten’s work exhibits a unique combination of mathematical power and physics insight, and his contributions have greatly enriched both fields.
		He is largely responsible for the modern interest in superstrings as a candidate theory for unification of all known physical interactions.
		Most recently, he has explored quantum duality symmetries of field theories and string theories, opening significant new perspectives on particle physics, string theory, and topology.
	www.ias.edu /About/faculty/witten.php (67 words)

	Edward Witten Biography \| scit_07123_package.xml
		Superstring theory is an attempt at a "theory of everything" that can meld quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein's general relativity theory.
		Witten and others have shown how tiny particles called strings can form all of the elementary particles we see today, such as protons, electrons, and quarks, and account for gravity.
		Witten also developed the Seiberg-Witten equations with Nathan Seiberg; these have revolutionized the study of four-dimensional objects.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/edward-witten-scit-07123 (110 words)

	Edward Witten Text - Physics Forums Library
		In fact, based on a study of papers published between 1981 and 1997, he was the most-cited physicist in the world: in that period, he published 138 papers, with 23,235 citations: each paper he published was cited an average of 168 times.
		I happen to be around during the re-arranged meeting for Post-Grads in the Talks given by Witten, Silk etc..etc in the United Kingdom 95/96.
		This was the first time that a Varying-speed-of light was contemplated by some of the worlds formost Post-Grads, I know cause 'I was There', and infact took part in the heated debates, and suggested that VSL was instrumental for the early Universe.
	www.physicsforums.com /archive/index.php/t-9047.html (429 words)

	International Mathematical Olympiad 2001
		Andrew Wiles and Edward Witten talked about the mathematical challenges ahead and directed their words of wisdom to the IMO student participants.
		He gave an overview of how mathematics underlies the basic theories of nature--quantum mechanics and general relativity--and how attempts to reconcile these theories has led to string theory (of which he is a leading exponent).
		Witten was recognized for his "lifetime of achievement, especially for pointing the way to unify apparently disparate fields of mathematics and to discover their elegant simplicity through links with the physical world." Smirnov received the award "for establishing the existence of the scaling limit of two-dimensional percolation, and for verifying John Cardy's conjectured relation."
	www.ams.org /ams/imo2001-closingday.html (1314 words)

	Re: Frozen in awe of Edward Witten - the search for Quantum Gravity
		I say "believe" because at the time as far as I know it is not possible to verify the calculations of string theory.
		Edward Witten works at princeton, is the most famous and the most cited physicist of the time, and of course I admire his work, too.
		In their 2002 New Scientist paper "Hunting the Higgs", http://www.sns.ias.edu/~witten/papers/higgs.pdf Gordon Kane and Edward Witten explain why the Higgs particle is just waiting to be discovered.
	www.lns.cornell.edu /spr/2003-11/msg0056274.html (1624 words)

	Jacksonville's Financial News and Daily Record
		Unlike most law firms who have several partners, associates, assistants and a slew of paralegals, The Law Office of Edward Witten is a one-man show.
		Witten has learned how to do it all over the years.
		Witten is in charge of sending the money to the schools, following up to see if students are still in school and keeping up with their grades until graduation.
	www.jaxdailyrecord.com /showstory.php?Story_id=1398 (741 words)

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