Barton Zwiebach (born ''Barton Zwiebach Cantor'', October 4, 1954) is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the

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Work

Zwiebach's undergraduate work was in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Peru, from which he graduated in 1977. His graduate work was in physics at the

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. Zwiebach obtained his Ph.D. in 1983, working under the supervision of

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. He has held postdoctoral positions at the

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, and at the

, where he became an assistant professor of physics in 1987, and a permanent member of the faculty in 1994. He is one of the world's leading experts in

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. He wrote the textbook ''A First Course in String Theory'' (2004, ), meant for undergraduates.

Selected publications

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* 1954 births Living people People from Lima 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 {{physicist-stub