Thomas Witten, University of Chicago (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Thomas Witten, University of Chicago

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Thomas Witten is the Homer J. Livingston Professor in Physics at the University of Chicago. Witten and Haim Diamant of Tel Aviv University have discovered a surprising connection between a coupled line of swinging pendulums and an elastic film that buckles and folds under compression while floating on a liquid.

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Jason Smith

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