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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 ...

A physicist said he would probably donate part of the $3 million he won in a surprise award to J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group. Edward Witten, a professor of mathematical physics at the ...

Edward Witten is an American mathematical physicist who is widely considered to be the founder of M-theory. He is a graduate of Brandeis University where he received his bachelor’s degree and ...

View all recipients of the National Medal of Science. For his leadership in a broad range of topics in mathematics and theoretical physics, including attempts to understand the fundamental forces of ...