Today the American physicist Edward Witten was awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. He was recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to a unified mathematical description of ...

One of the most probable ways we will reach the Singularity is with computers that mimic our brains. But to achieve that, we will have to tackle one of the bigger mysteries of life: consciousness.

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 ...

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On Friday I took the train up to London to learn about “the theory that nobody wanted”. That’s how Cambridge University’s Michael Green described string theory in his introduction to a lecture of the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Tests of quantum mechanics will continue to improve; my guess is certainly that quantum mechanics will hold up. Astrophysics and cosmology will be exciting for this half-century. Even if the present ...

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 ...