Edward Witten

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Edward_Witten
GPTKB entity
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gptkb:Princeton_University
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gptkb:Max_Planck_Medal
gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Wolf_Prize_in_Physics
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gptkb:Nemmers_Prize_in_Mathematics
gptkb:Heineman_Prize_for_Mathematical_Physics
gptkbp:birthDate 1951-08-26
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Baltimore,_Maryland,_USA
gptkbp:children gptkb:Ilana_Witten
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:David_Gross
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:Robbert_Dijkgraaf
gptkb:Anton_Kapustin
gptkb:Davide_Gaiotto
gptkb:Edward_Frenkel
gptkb:Greg_Moore
gptkb:Sergei_Gukov
gptkb:Cumrun_Vafa
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gptkb:theoretical_physics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Edward Witten
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gptkb:Chern–Simons_theory
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gptkb:Seiberg–Witten_theory
gptkb:Witten_conjecture
gptkb:AdS/CFT_correspondence
gptkb:M-theory
gptkb:Witten_index
gptkb:mirror_symmetry
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gptkb:American_Mathematical_Society
gptkb:American_Physical_Society
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Society
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gptkbp:religion gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:signature Edward Witten signature.svg
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gptkb:Princeton_University
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