Background
Witten, Louis was born on April 13, 1921 in Baltimore. Son of Abraham and Bessie (Perman) Witten.
physicist university professor
Witten, Louis was born on April 13, 1921 in Baltimore. Son of Abraham and Bessie (Perman) Witten.
Bachelor of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1951. Bachelor of Science, New York University, 1944.
Witten"s research has centered on classical gravitation, including the discovery of certain exact electrovacuum solutions to the Einstein field equation. He edited a review (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. Louis Witten was born to a Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland.
Witten graduated as a Civil Engineer from The Johns Hopkins University in 1941.
From 1942 to 1946 he served in the United States Army Air Forces as a Radar Weather Officer. He was a graduate student in physics at The Johns Hopkins University from 1948 to 1951 when he received the Doctor of Philosophy degree.
His dissertation, in statistical mechanics, was entitled "A Model of an Imperfect Gas". His thesis advisor was Theodore H. Berlin.
They had four children, Edward, Celia, Matthew, and Jesse.
Lorraine died in 1987. After postdoctoral study at Princeton University, the University of Maryland, and the Lincoln Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Witten joined Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor, the research laboratory of the Martin Marietta Corporation. In 1968 he became a Professor of Physics at the University of Cincinnati where he remained until his retirement in 1991.
Since 1968 he has been a Vice-President and Director of Science Affairs of the Gravity Research Foundation.
Served to First lieutenant United States Air Force, 1942-1946. Fellow American Physical Society. Member American Mathematics Society, International Astronomical Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Married Lorraine Wollach, March 27, 1949 (deceased 1987). Children: Edward, Celia, Matthew, Jesse. Married Francis L. White, January 2, 1992.