He has authored seminal texts on subjects ranging from early Renaissance Italian art to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.
His scholarship has been translated into 19 languages.
He will receive a Doctor of Laws degree today.
CHARLES M. VEST
Charles M. Vest stepped down as president of MIT in December after 14 years at the institution’s helm.
He recently served on a high-profile presidential commission that last month issued a report deeming the Bush administration’s intelligence reform plans “incomplete.”
Vest is now a professor of engineering at MIT.
He will receive a Doctor of Laws degree today.
EDWARD WITTEN
Edward Witten is a leading mathematical physicist.
He spent 4 years as a fellow at Harvard and since 1987 has served as the Simonyi Professor of Physics at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Witten has done groundbreaking research in M-Theory—a unification of string theories and a candidate for a “Theory of Everything,” which would describe all physical interactions in a single way.
Witten will receive a Doctor of Science degree today.