David Finkelstein
David Finkelstein · Science & Medicine
Physicist; understanding of the black hole event horizon
1929, New York City, United States — 2016, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
United States
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David Finkelstein was an American physicist whose 1958 paper introduced the coordinate system (now called Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates) that first clearly revealed the one-way nature of a black hole's event horizon, a turning point in general relativity. He later worked on quantum logic, spacetime structure and a discrete 'quantum' foundation for physics, and taught at Yeshiva University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was Jewish.
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Physicist; understanding of the black hole event horizon
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