"In the high carrels of theoretical physics, where intelligence is taken for granted, Witten is regarded as preternaturally, almost forbiddingly, smart. ...he wears the habitual small smile of the theoretician for whom sustained mathematical thinking has something like the emotional qualities that mystics associate with meditation. He speaks in a soft, high-pitched voice, floating short, precise sentences punctuated by witty little silences—the speech pattern of a man who has learned that he thinks too fast to otherwise be understood. Though he is the son of a theoretical physicist, he came to science in a roundabout fashion."
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Physicists from the United StatesMacArthur FellowsNational Medal of Science laureatesScientists from BaltimoreFields Medalists
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Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe Report (1998)
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