Peter Aichelburg

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Peter Christian Aichelburg (born November 9, 1941 ) is an Austrian theoretical physicist . He is known for his work on the general theory of relativity , especially for his exact solution of the Aichelburg-Sexl Ultraboost for the Schwarzschild vacuum, which he developed together with Roman Sexl .

Life

Peter Aichelburg was born as the second child of Ludwig Aichelburg (* 1917) and Martha Michalek (* 1920). He belongs to the Bohemian line of the noble family of the Counts von and zu Aichelburg , who came from Carinthia . He studied physics at the University of Vienna . Lectures he heard from his later doctoral supervisor Walter Thirring motivated him to turn to theoretical physics. He received his doctorate in 1967 from the University of Vienna with his doctoral thesis "The initial value problem of a harmonic oscillator in a radiation field". From 1980 until his retirement in 2007, Peter Aichelburg taught and researched at the University of Vienna at the Institute for Gravitational Physics, accompanied by numerous guest professorships and research stays at various universities and research institutes.

Works

  • Peter C. Aichelburg, Roman U. Sexl: Albert Einstein : his influence on physics, philosophy and politics . "Published under the auspices of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation", Braunschweig; Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-528-08425-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aichelburg, PC, Sexl, RU: On the gravitational field of a massless particle . In: Gen. Rel. Grav. . 2, No. 4, 1971, p. 203. bibcode : 1971GReGr ... 2..303A . doi : 10.1007 / BF00758149 .
  2. ^ Homepage of Peter Aichelburg. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
  3. ^ Website of the Institute for Gravitational Physics at the University of Vienna. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
  4. ^ Scientific career of Peter Aichelburg. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Aichelburg, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aichelburg, Peter Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1941