Albert Einstein labored unsuccessfully for decades to create a theory that would merge relativity and quantum physics into one tidy mathematical package. But where Einstein failed, physicists may ...

A physicist said he would probably donate part of the $3 million he won in a surprise award to J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group. Edward Witten, a professor of mathematical physics at the ...

Edward Witten is an American mathematical physicist who is widely considered to be the founder of M-theory. He is a graduate of Brandeis University where he received his bachelor’s degree and ...