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On Mar 29, 3:04 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/science-forecasts/dn10567-edward-witten-forecasts-the-future.html
> Edward Witten: "String theory will continue to be an extremely fertile
> source of new ideas. It will still be viewed as the interesting
> candidate for quantum gravity, and may even be more or less understood
> by 2056." Edward Witten is Charles Simonyi Professor at the Institute
> for Advanced Study, Princeton

Although Ed Witten is going to explain his string theory by 2056, when
it comes to recompenses he believes things should happen much
earlier:

http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/jan-apr08/craaford/index.html
"Theoretical physicist Edward Witten, mathematician Maxim Kontsevich
and astrophysicist Rashid Alievich Sunyaev have been awarded the 2008
Crafoord Prize. The Crafoord Prize, one of the world's largest science
prizes and worth $500,000, is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences. Established in 1980 by Holger and Anna-Greta
Crafoord, the prize "is intended to promote international basic
research in the disciplines of Astronomy and Mathematics; Geosciences;
Biosciences, with particular emphasis on ecology and Polyarthritis
(rheumatoid arthritis)," -- all fields not covered by the Nobel prize.
Holger Crafoord suffered severely from rheumatoid arthritis near the
end of his life and hence the specific prize for research in the area.
The 2008 version was awarded for cross-disciplinary mathematics and
significant discoveries regarding the fundamental laws of nature and
the early Universe. Kontsevich, from the Institut des Hautes Études
Scientifiques, France, and Witten, from the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, USA, were jointly awarded half the prize for their
work on the mathematics of string theory. The Academy commended "their
important contributions to mathematics inspired by modern theoretical
physics."

Pentcho Valev
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