Robert Woods
Robert Manuel Wald (born June 29, 1947 in New York City ) is an American physicist who specializes in general relativity and the thermodynamics of black holes . He is the author of the very popular and widely used book General Relativity .
Life
Wald studied at Columbia University (Bachelor 1968) and received his doctorate in 1972 from Princeton University under John Wheeler with the thesis Nonspherical gravitational collapse and black hole uniqueness . As a post-doc he was at the University of Maryland and from 1974 at the University of Chicago , where he became an assistant professor in 1976 and has been a professor since 1985. In 1976 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ).
Wald is Professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute and at the University of Chicago, since 2002 as Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Physics . He has authored over a hundred scientific publications, many of which have been cited over a hundred times.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) and the National Academy of Sciences (2001) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1996). For 2017 he was awarded the Einstein Prize of the American Physical Society.
Books
- Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes , University of Chicago Press 1977, 1992, ISBN 0-226-87029-4
- General Relativity , University of Chicago Press 1984, ISBN 0-226-87033-2
- Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and Black Hole Thermodynamics , University of Chicago Press 1994, ISBN 0-226-87027-8
- as editor: Black Holes and Relativistic Stars , University of Chicago Press 1999, ISBN 0-226-87035-9
See also
Web links
- Robert Wald's scientific publications registered on SLAC -INSPIRES (formerly SPIRES )
- Robert Wald's scientific publications registered on arXiv
- Some properties of Noether charge and a proposal for dynamical black hole entropy , Vivek Iyer and Robert M. Wald, Phys. Rev., D 50 (1994) 846–864 (most cited scientific publication)
- Biography at the APS
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Wald in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Book of Members. (PDF) Retrieved July 23, 2016 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forest, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wald, Robert Manuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |