Wolfgang Rindler
Wolfgang Rindler (born May 18, 1924 in Vienna ; † February 8, 2019 ) was an American theoretical physicist who dealt with the theory of relativity .
Life
Rindler was the son of a lawyer (the family lived in Vienna on the Dominican Bastion , where his father's office was). He fled as a Jew in 1938 (with the so-called Kindertransporten ) from the National Socialists to England. He studied at Liverpool University and received his PhD from Imperial College , London . He was then in the USA from 1956 at Cornell University and from 1963 at the then newly founded Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, later the University of Texas at Dallas , where he was a professor for decades. Among other things, he was visiting professor at King's College London (1961/62), at La Sapienza University in Rome (1968/69), at the University of Vienna (1975, 1987) and at Cambridge University ( Churchill College , 1990).
In the ART he introduced the term event horizon and is known for the Rindler coordinates in Minkowski space (to describe uniformly accelerated motion). He wrote a well-known textbook on the theory of relativity. With Roger Penrose he examined the spinor and twistor formalism in the theory of relativity. He also dealt with cosmology , for example the question of the validity of Mach's principle .
He was an external member of the Academy of Sciences in Turin and since 1998 honorary member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
Rindler power
In 2010 the Austrian physicist Daniel Grumiller named the concept of the Rindler force after Rindler - as an extension of the general theory of relativity , this would be a constant force that acts between two objects regardless of their distance.
Fonts
- Essential relativity. Special, General and Cosmological. Van Nostrand 1969, Springer 1977, Oxford University Press 2001, ISBN 0-19-850836-0 .
- with Roger Penrose : Spinors and Spacetime. 2 volumes, Cambridge University Press 1984, 1986.
- Introduction to Special Relativity. Clarendon Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-19-853952-5 .
- Visual horizons in world models , Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc., Vol. 116, 1956, pp. 662-677.
Web links
- Wolfgang Rindler, Physics department, University of Texas at Dallas. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
- Short biography in the invitation to the lecture "Cosmology from Einstein to today" by Wolfgang Rindler on June 2, 2005 in Vienna, PDF 80 KB. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Visual Horizons in World Models. In: Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 116, 1956, p. 662, reprinted in General Relativity and Gravitation. Volume 34, 2002, p. 131
- ^ Rindler: The Lense-Thirring effect exposed as anti-Machian. In: Physics Letters A. Volume 187, 1994, p. 236
- ↑ Grumiller: Model for Gravity at Large Distances. In: Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 211303, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rindler, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist of Austrian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 2019 |