Peter Woit Scientist

Peter Woit (/ˈwɔɪt/; born September 11, 1957) is an American theoretical physicist. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Woit is especially known for his criticism of string theory in his book Not Even Wrong, and also for his widely-read blog of the same name.

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Peter Woit
Birth dateSeptember 11, 1957
Nationality
United States
Education
Princeton University
Harvard University

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Field of study
Theoretical physics

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External resources

  1. http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/12950
  2. http://math.columbia.edu/~woit
  3. http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/08/book-that-is-not-even-wrong.html
  4. http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/all-strung-out
  5. http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0206135
  6. http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0102051
  7. http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/~joep/A%20dialog.html
  8. http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit
  9. http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog
  10. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=a+peter+woit&FORMAT=WWW&SEQUENCE=