Barton Zwiebach

Barton Zwiebach (born Barton Zwiebach Cantor, October 4, 1954) is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Barton Zwiebach
Barton Zwiebach at Harvard University
Born	(1954-10-04) October 4, 1954 (age 70) Lima, Peru
Alma mater	National University of Engineering California Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	String theory
Institutions	Harvard University University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Murray Gell-Mann
Doctoral students	Amer Iqbal Sabbir Rahman

Work

Zwiebach was born in Peru to a Jewish family and studied electrical engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Peru, graduating in 1977.^[1][2] 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.^[3]

He is one of the world's leading experts in string field theory. He wrote the textbook A First Course in String Theory (2004, ISBN 0-521-83143-1), meant for undergraduates.^[4][5]