Witten's research has centered on classical gravitation, including the discovery of certain exact electrovacuum solutions to the Einstein field equation.
His parents, Abraham Witten and Bessie Perman, emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe as teenagers in 1909 and were married in 1916.
[2] Louis Witten graduated as a Civil Engineer from Johns Hopkins University in 1941.
[citation needed] He was a graduate student in physics at The Johns Hopkins University from 1948 to 1951 when he received the PhD degree.
He edited a book[4] (see citation below) which contains papers by contributors such as ADM (Richard Arnowitt, Stanley Deser and Charles W. Misner), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Jürgen Ehlers and Wolfgang Kundt, Joshua N. Goldberg, and Felix Pirani which are used by researchers after the passage of more than 40 years.