Edward Witten

Edward Witten
Edward Witten
	Witten di Swedia, 29 April 2008
Lahir	26 Agustus 1951 (umur 73); Baltimore, Maryland, AS
Tempat tinggal	Princeton, New Jersey, AS
Kebangsaan	Amerika Serikat
Almamater	Brandeis University (B.A., 1971); Princeton University (M.A., 1974; Ph.D., 1976);
Suami/istri	Chiara Nappi
Anak	3
Penghargaan	MacArthur Fellowship (1982); Dirac Medal (1985); Albert Einstein Medal (1985); Fields Medal (1990); Alan T. Waterman Award (1986); Dannie Heineman Prize (1998); Nemmers Prize (2000); National Medal of Science (2002); Harvey Prize (2005); Henri Poincaré Prize (2006); Crafoord Prize (2008); Lorentz Medal (2010); Isaac Newton Medal (2010); Fundamental Physics Prize (2012); Kyoto Prize (2014); Albert Einstein Award (2016)
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Institusi	Institute for Advanced Study; Harvard University; Oxford University; California Institute of Technology; Princeton University
Disertasi	Some Problems in the Short Distance Analysis of Gauge Theories (1976)
Pembimbing doktoral	David Gross
Pembimbing akademik lain	Sidney Coleman; Michael Atiyah
Mahasiswa doktoral	Jonathan Bagger (1983); Cumrun Vafa (1985); Xiao-Gang Wen (1987); Dror Bar-Natan (1991); Shamit Kachru (1994); Eva Silverstein (1996); Sergei Gukov (2001)
Situs web	www.sns.ias.edu/witten

Edward Witten (lahir 26 Agustus 1951) adalah seorang fisikawan teoretikal dan profesor fisika matematika Amerika Serikat di Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Selain berkontribusi dalam bidang fisika, Witten berkarya dalam bidang matematika murni.^[4] Pada 1990, ia menjadi fisikawan pertama yang meraih Fields Medal dari International Mathematical Union.^[5]

Publikasi pilihan

Some Problems in the Short Distance Analysis of Gauge Theories. Princeton University, 1976. (Dissertation.)
Roman Jackiw, David Gross, Sam B. Treiman, Edward Witten, Bruno Zumino. Current Algebra and Anomalies: A Set of Lecture Notes and Papers. World Scientific, 1985.
Green, M., John H. Schwarz, and E. Witten. Superstring Theory. Vol. 1, Introduction. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 9780521357524.
Green, M., John H. Schwarz, and E. Witten. Superstring Theory. Vol. 2, Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 9780521357531.
Quantum fields and strings: a course for mathematicians. Vols. 1, 2. Material from the Special Year on Quantum Field Theory held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1996–1997. Edited by Pierre Deligne, Pavel Etingof, Daniel S. Freed, Lisa C. Jeffrey, David Kazhdan, John W. Morgan, David R. Morrison and Edward Witten. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI; Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, NJ, 1999. Vol. 1: xxii+723 pp.; Vol. 2: pp. i–xxiv and 727–1501. ISBN 0-8218-1198-3, 81–06 (81T30 81Txx).