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Barton Zwiebach

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Barton Zwiebach
Barton Zwiebach at Harvard University
Born (1954-10-04) October 4, 1954 (age 70)
Alma materNational University of Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
InstitutionsHarvard University
University of California, Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorMurray Gell-Mann
Doctoral studentsAmer Iqbal
Sabbir Rahman

Barton Zwiebach (born Barton Zwiebach Cantor, October 4, 1954) is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Work

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Zwiebach's undergraduate work was in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Peru, from which he graduated in 1977.

His graduate work was in physics at the California Institute of Technology. Zwiebach obtained his Ph.D. in 1983, working under the supervision of Murray Gell-Mann. He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became an assistant professor of physics in 1987, and a permanent member of the faculty in 1994.

He is one of the world's leading experts in string field theory. He wrote the textbook A First Course in String Theory (2004, ISBN 0-521-83143-1), meant for undergraduates.[1][2]

Selected publications

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Professor Zwiebach's publications are available on the SPIRES HEP Literature Database.

References

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  1. ^ Barton Zwiebach (10 June 2004). A First Course in String Theory. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83143-7; 558 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. ^ Gleiser, Marcelo (2005). "Review of A First Course in String Theory A First Course in String Theory by Barton Zwiebach". Physics Today. 58 (9): 57. doi:10.1063/1.2117825. ISSN 0031-9228.

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