Bernard protection

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Bernard Frederick Schutz (born August 11, 1946 in Paterson , New Jersey ) is an American physicist who deals with gravitational physics. In 1994 he was one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam . In 2014 he retired. He is a pioneer of gravitational wave astrophysics, which he was already working on at Caltech in the late 1960s .

Schutz graduated from Clarkson University in Potsdam (New York) with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and received his doctorate in 1971 from Caltech. As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Cambridge in 1971/72 and at Yale University in 1972/73 , where he became an instructor in 1973 . From 1974 to 1976 he was a lecturer at the University College of Wales in Cardiff . In 1976 he became a reader there and in 1984 a professor. Since 1995 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam as one of the founding directors alongside Jürgen Ehlers . There he heads the Department of Astrophysical Relativity, which deals with numerical simulations of general relativity, for example in the case of black holes, and the data evaluation of gravitational wave detectors and the calculation of possible gravitational wave signals. He still holds a professorship in Cardiff.

He is one of the directors of the German-British GEO600 gravity wave detector and is involved in LISA . He is also the founder of the open access journal Living Reviews in Relativity .

In 2006 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society , the Learned Society of Wales, the Royal Society for Art and Science in Uppsala and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1998) and the Institute of Physics . Schutz is an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow . He received the Amaldi Medal in 2006 and the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2019 . Schutz was also elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 .

Fonts

  • Geometrical methods of mathematical physics, Cambridge University Press, 1980
  • A first course in general relativity, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 2nd edition 2009
  • Gravity from the ground up, Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Individual evidence

  1. Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Member entry by Bernard F. Schutz at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 12, 2015.