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EDWARD WITTEN Physicist...
...1980s, though, when Witten turned his attention to superstrings, he was widely regarded as the most gifted physicist in the world, and perhaps the most brilliant who has ever lived. And simply by choosing to work in the field, he utterly transformed it. Says Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at New York University: "I remember fondly that back in the '70s, superstring theory was like a cottage industry. Only a handful of us diehards worked on it. But when Ed Witten declared that the theory would dominate the next 50 years of physics, it was like a tidal wave...
What would women pay to be impregnated, by remote control or even after the donor's death, by the world's smartest physicist or most talented violinist or most accomplished adventurer? That isn't so preposterous as it may sound. A few years back, William Shockley, Nobel-prizewinning co-inventor of the transistor, attracted ridicule by making a deposit in a sperm bank that accepted donations only from men with high IQs. But with biological immortality as a lure, more of the world's most accomplished men--or, failing that, a bunch of rock stars and politicians--might be only...
Degrees will also be bestowed upon philanthropist and diplomat Walter H. Annenberg, presidential policy advisor William T. Coleman Jr., social and feminist historian Natalie Zemon Davis, French historian Francois Furet, dancer Judith A. Jamison, philanthropist Oseola McCarty, physicist Charles P. Slichter '45 and National Institutes of Health director Harold E. Varmus...
...have all professions on our writing staff except writers," says Cohen, who worked as a physicist for the Harvard Robotics Laboratory before coming to The Simpsons...