Andrzej Trautman
Andrzej Mariusz Trautman (born January 4, 1933 in Warsaw ) is a Polish theoretical physicist who deals with general relativity (GTR).
Life
Trautman was the son of the painter and drawing teacher Mieczyslaw Trautman (died 1941), his mother Eliza came from a French family (her father Marius André was a French consular officer in Spain and a poet). He first attended school in Warsaw, which was interrupted by the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 after he had been in Germany with his mother for 10 months. In 1945 Trautman went with his mother to relatives in France, where he attended a Polish school in Paris until 1949 . He then studied radio technology at the Technical University of Warsaw (diploma 1955), but under the influence of his professor Jerzy Plebanski already tended to theoretical physics. He then joined Leopold Infeld's theory group at the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he received his doctorate in 1959 (on gravitational radiation). Before that he was with Hermann Bondi at King's College London in 1958 at the invitation of Felix Pirani . As a post-doc he was in Abdus Salam's group at Imperial College London in 1960 and with Peter Bergmann at Syracuse University in 1961 , where he met and worked with Ivor Robinson , Arthur Komar , Ted Newman , Roger Penrose and Engelbert Schücking . Since 1961 he has been at the University of Warsaw, from 1967 as Professor of Electrodynamics and Relativity as the successor to his teacher Leopold Infeld. From 1975 to 1985 he was director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics there.
He has been a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1969 , of which he was Vice-President in 1979/80, and of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1965 to 1980 he was a member of the International Committee for Relativity and Gravitation. Trautman was, among other things, visiting scholar at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1976/77 with Chen Ning Yang ) and at the ICTP and SISSA in Trieste. In 1986 he received the Marian Smoluchowski Medal .
Jerzy Lewandowski is one of his doctoral students .
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Trautman dealt, among other things, with exact solutions of Einstein's field equations of GTR (including an exact special gravitational wave solution 1960 with Ivor Robinson), gravitational waves, the Einstein- Cartan theory of gravitation, mathematical theory of non-Abelian gauge fields ( Yang-Mills theory ) as well as with the mathematical theory of spinors and the spin structure of Riemannian manifolds, where he collaborated with Thomas Friedrich from the Humboldt University in Berlin .
Fonts
- with Wojciech Kopczynski: Spacetime and Gravitation, Wiley 1992
- with Paolo Budinich: The spinorial chessboard, Springer 1988
- Differential geometry for physicists (Stony Brook Lectures), Naples, Bibliopolis 1984
- with Pirani, Bondi: Lectures on General Relativity, in Stanley Deser , Ford (editor) Brandeis Summer Institute, Vol. 1, 1964 (therein article by Trautman: Foundations of current problems in General Relativity)
- Gravitation, in Jagdish Mehra (editor) The physicists concept of nature , 1973, p. 179
- Einstein-Cartan Theory, in Ernst Schmutzer (editor), Proceedings General Relativity and Gravitation 9 (Jena 1980) , 1983
- Conservation laws in general relativity, in L. Witten (editor) Gravitation- introduction to current research , Wiley 1962
literature
- R. Penrose, I. Robinson, J. Tafel, Classical Quantum Gravity, Vol. 14, 1997, No. 1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Trautman, Robinson Physical Review Letters, Vol. 4, 1960, p. 431
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trautman, Andrzej |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trautman, Andrzej Mariusz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |