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Barton Zwiebach is currently a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in Lima, Peru, he completed his undergraduate work in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in 1977. He then pursued graduate studies in Physics at the California Institute of Technology, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1983 under the supervision of Murray Gell-Mann. Zwiebach held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and MIT, and became an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1987, achieving a permanent faculty position in 1994. He has made significant contributions to the fields of String Theory and Theoretical Particle Physics, particularly in String Field Theory and the construction of open and closed string field theories. He has been involved in important topics such as D-branes and tachyon condensation. His teaching interests include designing and teaching a new undergraduate course on String Theory, which has led to the publication of his textbook, 'A Course in String Theory', and he has received numerous accolades for his teaching excellence, including the MIT School of Science Teaching Prize.