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Edward Witten (born the July 26th 1951) is a mathematical physicist American, professor Charles Simonyi of mathematical physics to the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton, in the New Jersey.

It carries out research on the Théorie of the supercordes, a fundamental physical theory calling upon a mathematical apparatus of an extreme complexity, particularly in Topologie and analysis of spaces with N-dimensions. He is regarded by it as one of his more important participants, in particular thanks to the development of the Théorie M, first theory of the cords opening a non-perturbatif mathematical horizon.

He is elected associated foreigner with the Academy of Science in 2000.

Biography

Edward Witten was born in an Jewish family with Baltimore, in the Maryland. Wire of Lorraine W. Witten and Louis Witten, a physicist specialized in the Gravitation and the General relativity, Edward Witten obtained an university degree of history (with minor in linguistics) at the university of Brandeis. Witten had as an ambition to become political journalist, and published articles in The New Republic and The Nation. He attended the university of Wisconsin-Madison during one six-month period in a die of economy before giving up. After that, he briefly worked for the presidential campaign of George McGovern, then is turned over to the university to follow courses of mathematics applied to the university of Princeton, before changing section and passing with David Gross a doctorate of physics in 1976. He is currently professor of Mathematical physics in Institute for Advanced Study. He is married in Chiara Nappi, professor of physics at the University of Princeton, and his/her brother, Matt Witten, are scenario writer and producer of series TV like L.A. Law and House.

Many work of Edward in the field of the theoretical physics also had a certain number of mathematical consequences. Witten was primarily active in the Quantum theory of the fields and that of the cords, and in the related fields of the Topologie and the Géométrie. Its many contributions comprise a simplified proof of the theorem of positive energy implying of the spinors in the General relativity, a study relating to the Supersymétrie and the Théorie of Morse, an introduction of the quantum topological theory of the fields and work in bond with the Symétrie mirror and the supersymmetric theories of gauge, as well as a conjecture about the existence of a Théorie M.

Witten was the first physicist to gain the Médaille Fields. In connection with Witten, Sir Micheal Atiyah declared: " Although it is irrevocably a physicist, its control of mathematics exceeds the majority of the mathematicians by far. It each time surprised the mathematical community by the brilliant application of its physical perspicacity and thus led to the new ones and deep mathematical theorems… It had a deep impact on contemporary mathematics. Between its hands physics again constitutes a rich person source of inspiration and comprehension of the mathématiques."

Distinctions

Witten obtained many prices for its contributions in Physique and Mathématiques. It in particular received the Médaille Fields in 1990 and the National Medal off Science in 2004. It was reproduced on the list of the 100 most influential people of the magazine Time in 2004.

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