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Edward Witten

1951 - Today

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Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical and theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus in the school of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Witten is a researcher in string theory, quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum field theories, and other areas of mathematical physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Witten has received more than 2,557,728 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Witten is the 345th most popular physicist (up from 353rd in 2019), the 2,198th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,207th in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 48

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  • 5.31

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  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edward Witten ranks 345 out of 717. Before him are Shuji Nakamura, Walter A. Shewhart, Ami Argand, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Heinrich Geißler, and Donna Strickland. After him are Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Henri Pitot, George Johnstone Stoney, Léon Brillouin, and Galileo Ferraris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Edward Witten ranks 80. Before him are Javier Marías, Joe Pantoliano, Fernando Lugo, Ben Feringa, Thomas Boni Yayi, and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti. After him are Mamoru Oshii, James Newton Howard, Joe Lynn Turner, Šaban Šaulić, Isabel Preysler, and Horst Hrubesch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Witten ranks 2,198 out of 18,182. Before him are Edward Zwick (1952), Victor Mature (1913), Karl Malone (1963), Langston Hughes (1902), Jerry Seinfeld (1954), and Richard Rodgers (1902). After him are Samuel Fuller (1912), Charles Whitman (1941), David Baltimore (1938), Lee J. Cobb (1911), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), and George Crumb (1929).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edward Witten ranks 70. Before him are Steven Chu (1948), Nathan Rosen (1909), John Mauchly (1907), Frank Wilczek (1951), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), and Walter A. Shewhart (1891). After him are Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), and Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901).

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