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Duncan J. Watts

Australian physicist and sociologist

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    Born 1971
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-06-13

Duncan James Watts is a computational social scientist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City, and is known for his work on small-world networks.

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