Edward Written: A Brief Biography

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Edward has written who is he you ask.Well he is an American theoretical physicist. He is also the professor of mathematical physics at the Institute for Advanced Study which is located in Princeton, New Jersey.He was also the person who discovered the string theory.Which states “that subatomic particles, instead of being single points, are actually strings, oscillating (vibrating) a certain way.” He also discovered a couple more theories. Edward Written was born August 26, 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland.
He was born part of a Jewish family. His parents were Lorraine W Witten and his father was Louis Witten. His father was a theoretical physicist who specialized in gravitation and general relativity. He also had a sibling who was named by Matt Witten who was successful in screenwriting and television producing. Edward Written also had a wife whose name was Chiara Nappi and she was the physics professor at Princeton.They had three kids who are Ilana Witten who goes to Neuroscientist at Princeton. Also, Daniela Witten and she went to Biostatistician at Washington. Lastly there third child whose name was Rafael Witten and he went to Stanford University
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When he was 12 years old his letters about denouncing the Vietnam war were in the local newspaper’s editorial section. Even though he was really into Physics he really wanted two become a Journalist. So he went to Brandeis University which he then graduated from and got a degree in history. In his writing career, he has discovered a lot of amazing yet confusing theories. Which include Quantum gravity, m-theory, string theory, supersymmetry and quantum field theory. He also explored the relationship between the fields theory and the quantum. As well as the differences in the topology of manifolds of two and

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