Louis Witten

Louis Witten ( born April 13, 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American theoretical physicist with Gravitational Physics ( General Relativity ) is concerned.

Witten studied at Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1941 and his doctorate in 1951 Theodore H. Berlin. He also received in 1944 a Bachelor's degree in physics at New York University. As a post - graduate student, he was until 1953 at Princeton University, 1952/53, at the University of Maryland, 1953/54, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( Lincoln Laboratory) and conducted research from 1954 to 1968 with Martin Marietta, starting in 1965 as Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies. 1956 to 1968 he was also an adjunct professor at Drexel University. 1964/65 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at the Weizmann Institute. From 1968 until his retirement in 1991 he was professor of physics at the University of Cincinnati, where he 1968-1974 the physics faculty initiated. He was since 1972 Vice - President and Director of Science Affairs of the Gravity Research Foundation.

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.

He has from his first marriage with Lorraine Wallach ( marriage in 1949, died 1987), one daughter and three sons, one of which is the physicist Edward Witten, another son Matthew Witten is a screenwriter. Since 1991 he has been married to his second wife Francis De Lange.

Works

  • Witten, Louis ( ed.) Gravitation: an Introduction to Current Research. New York: Wiley, 1962 ( in Witten: A geometric theory of the electromagnetic and gravitational fields )
  • Published by Moshe Carmeli, Stuart Fickler Relativity, Plenum Press, 1970 ( Proc. Relativity Conference in the Midwest, Cincinnati 1969)
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