Clifford Will

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Clifford Martin Will (* 1946 in Hamilton , Ontario ) is a Canadian theoretical physicist who deals with gravitational physics.

Will studied at McMaster University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1968, and at Caltech , where he received his PhD in 1971 with Kip Thorne . He was a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech for one year and from 1972 to 1974 an Enrico Fermi Fellow at the University of Chicago . In 1974 he became an assistant professor at Stanford University . In 1981 he became an Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and in 1985 he was given a full professorship there (from 2005 McDonnel Professor). 1991 to 1996 and 1997 to 2002 he was chairman of the physics department.

Will dealt with theoretical work on experiments on general relativity (AR) or gravitational physics , etc. a. the analysis (with the help of the post-Newtonian approximations to solutions of the AR) of the observations of Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor , which led to the indirect detection of gravitational waves in a double star pulsar system.

He was a Sloan Research Fellow from 1975 to 1979, a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989 and a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Fellow in 1996/7. In 2007 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2002 . From 2004 to 2007 he was President of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.

His popular science book on experimental gravity theory "Was Einstein right?" Won the American Physical Society's Prize for Science Writing in 1987 and was named one of the 200 best books of the year in 1986 by The New York Times Book Review .

In 2019 Will received the Albert Einstein Medal .

Fonts

  • Theory and Experiment in gravitational physics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1981, ISBN 0-521-23237-6 .
  • What is Einstein right? Putting general relativity to the test. Basic Books, New York NY 1986, ISBN 0-465-09088-5 (German edition: ... and Einstein was right. Springer, Berlin et al. 1989, ISBN 3-540-50577-6 ).
  • What is Einstein right? Testing relativity at the centenary. In: Abhay Ashtekar (Ed.): 100 years of relativity. Spacetime Structure. Einstein and Beyond. World Scientific, Singapore et al. 2005, ISBN 981-256-394-6 , pp. 205-227, abstract .
  • The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment. In: Living Reviews in Relativity. Vol. 9, No. 3, 2006, doi : 10.12942 / lrr-2006-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clifford Will in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Will, Clifford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Will, Clifford Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario