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Richard Arnowitt

Who

Richard Arnowitt · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; co-developed the ADM formalism in general relativity and supergravity

When

1928, New York City, United States — 2014, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Richard Arnowitt is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; co-developed the ADM formalism in general relativity and supergravity

How & why

Arnowitt was a theoretical physicist who, with Stanley Deser and Charles Misner, developed the ADM formalism, a Hamiltonian reformulation of general relativity central to numerical relativity and quantum gravity; he also worked on supergravity. Born to a Jewish family in New York City, he was a longtime professor at Texas A&M University.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

Contributions & Sources

Physicist; co-developed the ADM formalism in general relativity and supergravity

1928

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics