Louis Witten
Louis W. Witten | |
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Thesis | A Model of an Imperfect Gas |
Doctoral advisor | Theodore H. Berlin |
Louis Witten (born April 13, 1921)[1] is an American theoretical physicist and the father of the physicist Edward Witten.
Witten's research has centered on classical
Early life and education
Louis Witten was born to a
He was a graduate student in physics at The Johns Hopkins University from 1948 to 1951 when he received the PhD degree. His dissertation, in statistical mechanics, was entitled "A Model of an Imperfect Gas". His thesis advisor was Theodore H. Berlin.[4] In 1949 he married Lorraine Wollach of Baltimore. They had four children, Edward, Celia, Matthew, and Jesse. Lorraine died in 1987. In 1992 he married Frances Lydia DeLange.
Academic career
After postdoctoral study at
He participated in a conference held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from January 18–23, 1957 "to discuss the role of gravitation in physics".[note 1]
Bibliography
- Witten, Louis, ed. (1962). Gravitation: an Introduction to Current Research. New York: Wiley.
- Carmeli, Moshe; Fickler, Stuart I.; Witten, Louis (1970). Relativity: Proceedings of the Relativity Conference in the Midwest, held at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2-6, 1969. Boston, MA: Springer US. OCLC 840287501.
- Esposito, F. Paul; Witten, Louis (1977). Asymptotic structure of space-time: [proceedings of a Symposium on Asymptotic Structure of Space-Time (SOASST), held at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, June 14-18, 1976]. New York: Plenum Press. OCLC 2798582.
Notes
References
- ^ ORAL HISTORIES: Louis Witten, interviewed by Dean Rickles and Donald Salisbury, at the American Institute of Physics; March 17, 2011; retrieved December 13, 2021
- ^ Witten, Louis (1962). Gravitation: An Introduction to Current Research. Wiley.
- S2CID 211146232.
- ISSN 0031-899X.
- ISBN 978-3-86931-963-6.
Further reading
- Mansouri, Freydoon & Scanio, Joseph J. (1993). Topics on Quantum Gravity and Beyond: Essays in honor of Louis Witten on his Retirement. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 981-02-1290-9.