Edward Witten is an American mathematician who won a Fields Medal for his work on quantum field theory. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 26 August 1951. His career sits on the border of mathematics and theoretical physics, and he is among the few physicists whose ideas have changed the direction of pure mathematics, especially in geometry and topology. He connects mathematical results on manifolds and knots to string theory and quantum field theory, which makes him a link between mathematics and physics.
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Edward Witten is an American mathematician who won a Fields Medal for his work on quantum field theory.
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Edward Witten is an American mathematician who won a Fields Medal for his work on quantum field theory.
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In theoretical physics, the Weinberg-Witten (WW) theorem, proved by Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten, states that massless particles (either composite or elementary) with spin j > 1/2 cannot carry a Lorentz-covariant current, while massless particles with spin j > 1 cannot carry a Lorentz-covariant stress-energy.
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In theoretical physics, the Weinberg-Witten (WW) theorem, proved by Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten, states that massless particles (either composite or elementary) with spin j > 1/2 cannot carry a
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