Peter Woit
Peter Woit is a Latvian-American mathematician who works in twistor theory. He works in the mathematics department at Columbia University. A critic of string theory, Woit has published the book Not Even Wrong (2006) and writes a blog of the same name.
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- Harvard UniversityPrinceton University
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- 🎓 Curtis Callan
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1957
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