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 ...

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 description ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study. His work in string ...

The theoretical physicist Edward Witten, mathematician Maxim Kontsevich and astrophysicist Rashid Alievich Sunyaev have been awarded the 2008 Crafoord Prize. Witten and Kontsevich share one half of ...

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At a 1990 conference on cosmology, I asked attendees, who included folks like Stephen Hawking, Michael Turner, James Peebles, Alan Guth and Andrei Linde, to nominate the smartest living physicist.