Barton Zwiebach
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Barton Zwiebach (born Barton Zwiebach Cantor, October 4, 1954) is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Zwiebach was born in Peru to a Jewish family and studied electrical engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Peru, graduating in 1977.<ref name="t272">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="o979">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He subsequently attended graduate school in physics at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1983, working under the supervision of Murray Gell-Mann. He then held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At MIT, he became an assistant professor of physics in 1987, and a permanent member of the faculty in 1994.<ref name="h968">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He is one of the world's leading experts in string field theory. He wrote the textbook A First Course in String Theory (2004, Template:ISBN), meant for undergraduates.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Gleiser2005">Template:Cite journal</ref>
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- 1954 births
- Living people
- Scientists from Lima
- Jewish scientists
- Peruvian emigrants to the United States
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- University of California, Berkeley staff
- Peruvian physicists
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- American string theorists
- National University of Engineering alumni
- MIT Center for Theoretical Physics faculty