Louis Witten
Physicist, Academic
1921 –
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Who is Louis Witten?
Louis Witten is an American theoretical physicist and the father of Edward Witten.
Witten's research has centered around classical gravitation, including the discovery of certain exact electrovacuum solutions to the Einstein field equation. He edited an important review which contains papers by leading contributors such as ADM, Choquet-Bruhat, Ehlers and Kundt, Goldberg, and Pirani which remain valuable to researchers after the passage of more than 40 years.
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- Born
- Apr 13, 1921
Baltimore - Parents
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Princeton University
- Johns Hopkins University
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on July 23, 2013
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