Wei Teng and Yang Zhenning tied for the greatest physicists in the field of contemporary physics in 2022. Edward? Witten is a Jewish-American physicist, mathematician, Fields Prize winner and professor at Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. He is a top expert in string theory and quantum field theory. He was named the sixth most influential figure after World War II by Life Weekly, the highest H index among contemporary physicists, and one of the greatest physicists in contemporary physics in 2022. Physicist Yang Zhenning. Honorary Dean and Professor of Institute of Advanced Studies, Tsinghua University; Professor, Bowen Chair, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 1922 was born in Hefei, Anhui province in September. 1938 to 1944 studied in the physics department of national southwest associated university, and obtained bachelor's and master's degrees successively. 1948 received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago. In 1950s and 1960s, he founded the theory of "Young-Mills Gauge Field" and put forward the "Young-Baxter Equation". He won the 1957 Nobel Prize in physics for putting forward the principle of parity non-conservation in the weak interaction with Li Zhengdao, and was another greatest physicist in the field of contemporary physics in 2022.