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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 ...

At a 1990 conference on cosmology, I asked attendees, who included folks like Stephen Hawking, Michael Turner, James Peebles, Alan Guth and Andrei Linde, to nominate the smartest living physicist.

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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 ...