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...American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted its 225th class of fellows and foreign honorary members on Saturday in Sanders Theatre, with 14 Harvard professors and administrators among the inductees. Cumrun Vafa, Donner professor of science, expressed his happiness to be among this year’s inductees. “It is part of the American tradition of valuing sciences and arts and it is a great honor for me, especially coming from the different background of Iran,” he said. Vafa described the work in string theory for which he was elected...

Author: By Joyce Y. Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AAAS Inducts 225th Class of Fellows | 10/11/2005 | See Source »

Donner Professor of Science Cumrun Vafa, who was also honored, wrote in an e-mail that he was “glad to see so many of my colleagues at Harvard elected to AAAS, though given the quality of faculty here, this is not very surprising...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Academy Honors 13 Harvard Faculty | 4/29/2005 | See Source »

...Cumrun Vafa, Donner Professor of Science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: List of 186 Faculty Signatories | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

...theory--the latest rage in physics, which attempts to meld relativity and quantum theory--there may be more than three dimensions of space and more than one dimension of time. What does that mean? Even the experts have no clue. "We're trying to understand it," says Harvard theorist Cumrun Vafa. "It's quite mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riddle of Time | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Professor of Physics Cumrun Vafa says that though the exact form of the SU(5) theory is under debate, "Georgi's and Glashow's work is pioneering in the field and has greatly influenced the thinking of physicists on unification...

Author: By Paveljit S. Bindra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proton Decay: Window to Future Particle Physics? | 2/5/1992 | See Source »

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