Louis Witten

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Louis Witten (born April 13, 1921 in Baltimore , Maryland ) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with gravitational physics ( general relativity ).

Witten studied at Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's degree as an engineer in 1941 and a doctorate in 1951 under Theodore H. Berlin . He also received a bachelor's degree in physics from New York University in 1944 . As a post-doctoral student he was at Princeton University until 1953 , at the University of Maryland in 1952/53, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Lincoln Laboratory) in 1953/54 and researched with Martin Marietta from 1954 to 1968 , from 1965 as Associate Director of his Institute for Advanced Studies. 1956 to 1968 he was also adjunct professor at Drexel University . In 1964/65 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at the Weizmann Institute . From 1968 until his retirement in 1991 he was Professor of Physics at the University of Cincinnati , where he headed the Physics Faculty from 1968 to 1974. He has been Vice President and Director of Science Affairs for the Gravity Research Foundation since 1972.

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society .

From his first marriage to Lorraine Wallach (marriage 1949, died 1987) he has a daughter and three sons, one of whom is the physicist Edward Witten , another son Matthew Witten is a screenwriter. He has been married to Francis De Lange for the second time since 1991.

Works

  • Louis Witten (Ed.): Gravitation: an Introduction to Current Research . New York: Wiley, 1962 (therein von Witten: A geometric theory of the electromagnetic and gravitational fields )
  • Editor with Moshe Carmeli, Stuart Fickler Relativity , Plenum Press 1970 (Proc. Relativity Conference in the Midwest, Cincinnati 1969)

literature

  • Freydoon Mansouri, Joseph J. Scanio: Topics on Quantum Gravity and Beyond: Essays in honor of Louis Witten on his retirement . Singapore: World Scientific, 1993. ISBN 981-02-1290-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Witten, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland