Barton Zwiebach

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Barton Zwiebach
Theoretical Physics
InstitutionsHarvard University
University of California, Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorMurray Gell-Mann
Doctoral studentsAmer Iqbal

Barton Zwiebach (born Barton Zwiebach Cantor, October 4, 1954) is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Work

Zwiebach's undergraduate work was in Electrical Engineering at the

Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
in Peru, from which he graduated in 1977.

His graduate work was in physics at the California Institute of Technology. Zwiebach obtained his Ph.D. in 1983, working under the supervision of Murray Gell-Mann. He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became an assistant professor of physics in 1987, and a permanent member of the faculty in 1994.

He is one of the world's leading experts in

ISBN 0-521-83143-1), meant for undergraduates.[1][2]

Selected publications

Professor Zwiebach's publications are available on the SPIRES HEP Literature Database.

References

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