Alfred Schild (physicist)
Alfred Schild (born September 7, 1921 in Istanbul , † May 24, 1977 in Downers Grove , Illinois ) was a German-American physicist .
Schild attended a university in England. When the Second World War broke out, he was interned as a German. He was later allowed to go to Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto (BA 1944). In 1946 he did his doctorate under Leopold Infeld . In 1947/1948 Schild was a post-doc at the Institute for Advanced Study with Albert Einstein . Among other things, he dealt with exact solutions to general relativity and worked at the Carnegie Institute of Technology a . a. in the development of atomic clocks .
In 1957 he moved to the University of Texas at Austin .
Fonts
- with Leopold Infeld: On the motion of test particles in general relativity. In: Reviews of Modern Physics. Volume 21, 1949, pp. 408-413.
- with Roy Kerr : Some algebraically degenerate solutions of Einstein's gravitational field equations. In: Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics. Volume 17, 1965, p. 199.
- with John Lighton Synge : Tensor Calculus. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1949.
Web links
- Biography at The Handbook of Texas Online
Individual evidence
- ^ Who was who in America with world notables. 1981, p. 505.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schild, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1977 |
| Place of death | Downers Grove , Illinois |