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Lacy33
Aug26-04, 04:16 PM
Happy Birthday
Edward Witten
August 26
Tom McCurdy
Aug27-04, 02:41 PM
For those who don't know Ed Witten united the 5 different versions of string theory into M-theory
Tom McCurdy
Aug27-04, 02:48 PM
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Witten.html
more info... or just search google

bottom line he is possibly the smartest man alive
humanino
Aug27-04, 03:07 PM
Tom, do you seriously think some people don't know Witten :surprise:
Lacy33
Aug27-04, 03:22 PM
Only as someone who knows he is also just a nice guy. Not only an alien!
Birthdays are a time for the rest of us to celebrate someone's life and work.
selfAdjoint
Aug27-04, 05:44 PM
How old is he this year?
Lacy33
Aug27-04, 07:15 PM
I think the Who's Who and other sources put him in 1951
MathematicalPhysicist
Aug30-04, 11:01 AM
For those who don't know Ed Witten united the 5 different versions of string theory into M-theory
and this gives what exactly?!
he's a mathematical genius but i dont know much about as a physicist because as you know physicists are bound to experiments and not to their paperwork.
Lacy33
Aug30-04, 11:48 AM
and this gives what exactly?!
he's a mathematical genius but i dont know much about as a physicist because as you know physicists are bound to experiments and not to their paperwork.

Sorry I don't understand what this has to do with Ed's Birthday which was August 26th, so long ago now it's almost his NEXT birthday