Louis Witten, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Louis Witten

American theoretical physicist

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1921

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Louis Witten (born April 13, 1921) is an American theoretical physicist and the father of Edward Witten. 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.