Barton Zwiebach
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Barton Zwiebach is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Barton Zwiebach at Harvard University
String theory
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In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these str
Barton Zwiebach
…Barton Zwiebach (born Barton Zwiebach Cantor, October 4, 1954) is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zwiebach was born in Peru to a Jewish family and studied electrical engineering at the…
A cross section of a quintic Calabi–Yau manifold
A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor. Today some physicists are working to understand high-temperature superconductivity using the AdS/CFT correspondence.
A graph of the j-function in the complex plane
Leonard Susskind