Louis Witten

Louis W. Witten
Born (1921-04-13) April 13, 1921 (age 103)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materJohns Hopkins University (PhD)
Princeton University
University of Maryland
MIT (postdoctoral research)
Known forElectrovacuum solution
ChildrenEdward Witten
Matt Witten
Celia Witten
Jesse Witten
Scientific career
FieldsGravitation
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Martin Marietta Corporation
University of Cincinnati
University of Florida
Thesis A Model of an Imperfect Gas
Doctoral advisorTheodore 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 gravitation, including the discovery of certain exact electrovacuum solutions to the Einstein field equation. He edited a book[2] (see citation below) which contains papers by contributors such as ADM (Arnowitt, Deser, and Misner), Choquet-Bruhat, Ehlers and Kundt, Goldberg, and Pirani which are used by researchers after the passage of more than 40 years. His most recent paper was published in 2020.[3]

  1. ^ ORAL HISTORIES: Louis Witten, interviewed by Dean Rickles and Donald Salisbury, at the American Institute of Physics; March 17, 2011; retrieved December 13, 2021
  2. ^ Witten, Louis (1962). Gravitation: An Introduction to Current Research. Wiley.
  3. ^ Herrera, L.; Di Prisco, A.; Ospino, J.; Witten, Louis (2020). "Geodesics of the hyperbolically symmetric black hole". Physical Review D. 101 (6): 064071. arXiv:2002.07586. Bibcode:2020PhRvD.101f4071H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.064071. S2CID 211146232.