Charles Misner

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Charles W. Misner (born June 13, 1932 in Jackson (Michigan) ) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with the theory of gravity .

Life

Misner received his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1952 and his master's degree from Princeton University in 1954 , where he received his doctorate in 1957 under John Archibald Wheeler (“Outline of Feynman Quantization of General Relativity”). From 1956 he was "Instructor" at Princeton and from 1959 Assistant Professor. In 1963 he went to the University of Maryland in College Park as an associate professor , where he was professor of physics from 1966 to 2000. Since then he has been Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in the gravitational physics group. Among other things, he was visiting professor in Cambridge in 1966/67 and in 1976in England, 1959 and 1976 at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen , 1971 at the Institute for Physical Problems of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow , 1972 at Caltech , 1973 at All Souls College in Oxford , 1980/81 and 2000 at the University of California in Santa Barbara and 2000–2002 and 2005 at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam .

From 1958 to 1962 he was a Sloan Research Fellow , 1968 Fellow of the American Physical Society and 1972/73 Guggenheim Fellow . In 1994 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Stanley Deser and Richard Arnowitt , and in 2015 the Albert Einstein Medal with Desner . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000).

Misner is known for his cosmological approach of the "Mixmaster Universe" (as a model of a chaotic, oscillating cosmological development), the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner mass definition and the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) form of the field equations of general relativity (in a "Hamiltonian form" of equations of motion through division into three-dimensional space-like hypersurfaces and introduction of a time-like coordinate). With his student Beckedorff, he gave a solution to the field equations for what was later called the black hole as a further development of the Oppenheimer -Snyder treatment of a gravitational collapse . Later Misner u. a. with numerical treatment of general relativity.

With his teacher John A. Wheeler and Kip Thorne , he wrote the textbook Gravitation (Freeman, 1279 pages) in 1973 , which is still the standard work today (2020). With Patrick Cooney he published the book Spreadsheet Physics in 1991 about the use of spreadsheets in physics classes.

Carl H. Brans is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts (selection)

Unless cited in the footnotes.

  • Charles Misner, John Archibald Wheeler : Classical physics as geometry , Annals of Physics, Volume 2, 1957, pp. 525-603
  • R. Arnowitt, S. Deser, CW Misner: The dynamics of General Relativity . In: Louis Witten: Gravitation. An introduction to current research . 1962, arxiv : gr-qc / 0405109
  • Charles Misner: Differential geometry and differential topology , in De Witt / De Witt, Relativity groups and topology, Les Houches Lectures, Blackie 1964
  • Charles Misner, DH Sharp: Relativistic equations for adiabatic, spherically symmetric gravitational collapse , Phys. Rev. B, Volume 146, 1964, pp. 571-576
  • Charles Misner: Relativistic equations of spherical gravitational collapse with escaping neutrinos , Phys. Rev. B, Volume 137, 1965, pp. 1360-1364
  • Charles Misner: Taub-NUT space as a counterexample to almost everything , in: Lectures in applied mathematics, Volume 8, 1967, p. 160
  • Charles Misner: The isotropy of the universe , Astroph. J., Volume 151, 1968, pp. 43-457
  • Charles Misner, Abraham Taub : A Singularity-free empty universe , Sov. Phys. JETP, Vol. 28, 1969, p. 122
  • Charles Misner: Absolute zero of time , Phys. Rev., Volume 186, 1969, pp. 1328-1333
  • Charles Misner: Gravitational collapse , in: Chretien, Deser, Goldstein, Astrophysics and General Relativity, Volume 1, Gordon and Breach, 1969
  • Charles Misner: Classical and quantum dynamics of a closed universe , in: Carmeli, Fickler, Witten, Lectures on general relativity, Plenum 1970
  • Charles Misner: Stability of Kerr black holes against scalar perturbation , Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., Vol. 17, 1972, p. 472
  • Charles Misner: Minisuperspace , in John R. Klauder, Magic without Magic , Freeman 1972
  • Charles Misner, John Archibald Wheeler: Conservation laws and the boundary of a boundary , in Shelest: Gravitation, Problems and Prospects, Kiev 1972
  • Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne , John A. Wheeler: Gravitation. Freeman, New York, 1973, 2000, ISBN 0-7167-0334-3 .
  • Charles W. Misner, Patrick A. Cooney: Spreadsheet Physics , Addison-Wesley 1991
  • Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne and Wojciech Zurek : John Wheeler, relativity, and quantum information. In: Physics Today 62, April 2009, pp. 40-46 (via his teacher, John A. Wheeler) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ published in the Reviews of Modern Physics : Misner, Feynman quantization of general relativity , Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 29, 1957, pp. 497-509.
  2. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed June 4, 2019 .
  3. ^ Book of Members. (PDF) Retrieved July 23, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ Misner: Mixmaster Universe , Physical Review Letters, Volume 22, 1969, pp. 1071-1074.
  5. ↑ Arnowitt, Deser, Misner, Coordinate Invariance and Energy Expressions in General Relativity , Physical Review , Volume 122, 1961, p. 997.
  6. ↑ Arnowitt, Deser, Misner: Dynamical structure and definition of energy in General Relativity , Physical Review, Volume 116, 1959, p. 1322
  7. ^ Arnowitt, Deser, Misner, Canonical Variables in General Relativity , Physical Review, Volume 117, 1960, p. 1595.
  8. ↑ Thesis 1962, lecture by Misner 1963 in Gold “The nature of Time” 1967 as “Infinite Redshift in General Relativity”. They pieced together a Friedmann solution with vanishing pressure inside a sphere and the outer space of the Schwarzschild solution.
personal data
SURNAME Misner, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Misner, Charles W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Jackson (Michigan)