Leinweber Foundation gifts to five institutions, totaling $90 million, will establish the newly renamed MIT Center for Theoretical Physics ' A Leinweber Institute within the Department of Physics, affiliated with the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at the School of Science, as well as Leinweber Institutes for Theoretical Physics at three other top research universities: the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, as well as a Leinweber Forum for Theoretical and Quantum Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study. 'MIT has one of the strongest and broadest theory groups in the world,' says Professor Washington Taylor, the director of the newly funded center and a leading researcher in string theory and its connection to observable particle physics and cosmology. 'This landmark endowment from the Leinweber Foundation will enable us to support the best graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to develop their own independent...
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