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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Edward Whitten a Powerhouse of a Human?
I think in the long archifice, truly, we're all little guys and girls standing on the shoulders of each other. I mean, it's all going to look tiny in retrospect. If we celebrate the New York Times, you know, as a newspaper or the idea of a newspaper in a few centuries from now will be long forgotten. We don't come across such people a lot in history. So I think yes, indeed, he's one of the rare figures in this history of subject. He has had great impact on a lot of aspects of not just string theory, a lot of different areas in physics, and also mathematics as well.
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