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Cumrun Vafa is a male theoretical physicist and university teacher born in Tehran in 1960. He holds United States citizenship and speaks Persian and English. His native name is کامران وفا. Vafa is employed by Harvard University and has been educated at Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Alborz High School. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree, with Edward Witten as his doctoral advisor.
His work spans theoretical physics, mathematics, and the philosophy of science. Vafa is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. He has received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, the ICTP Dirac Medal, the Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the Mustafa Prize. He is also recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Univers décrypté Par Les énigmes
- Universum in Rätseln
- Puzzles to Unravel the Universe
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,241x
- Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2021 · cited 6,867x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,175x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,699x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tehran
- Occupation
- theoretical physicist
- Educated at
- Alborz High School
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- Persian
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Edward Witten
- Field of work
- philosophy of science
- Official website
- www.cumrunvafa.org
- Image
- Cumrun Vafa, Harvard.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1960-01-01
- Erdős number
- 3
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Cumrun Vafa
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- کامران وفا
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