Is he the GOAT physicist

what he do?

>>8447412
only physicist to win a fields medal

if string theory turns out to be correct then ya

>>8448088

Is Witten the one that developed string theory though? i thought it was other guys before him

>>8448529
Witten unified them with M-theory. And he also done a bunch of other stuff in Mathematical Physics. The coolest probably being establishing connections with the Geometric Langlands.

>>8447410
>physicist

>>8447410
He's definitely up there as far as physicists go. I still wanna say Shing Tung Yau is cooler, though.

>>8448660
no Grothendieck?

>>8448709
Grothendieck didn't do stuff for physics. Yau did a ton for physics and was also a Fields medalist.

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tfw

>Witten attended the Park School of Baltimore (class of '68), and received his Bachelor of Arts with a major in history and minor in linguistics from Brandeis University in 1971.

Witten wasted all that time doing shitty social science, and then still went on to become a great physicist. Yeah we are talking some serious grey matter quality here.

>>8448730
who is greater between Yau and Witten?

>>8448529
michio kaku cofounded(?) string theory but witten pretty much fixed it and finalized it

>>8448918
witten didn't try to steal credit for the poincare conjecture

>>8448808

well I have been a NEET for 7 years now and I'm starting at uni next year.

rate my smartness.