Robert Wald
Robert Wald · Science & Medicine
Physicist; general relativity and quantum field theory in curved spacetime
1947, New York City, USA
United States (Chicago, University of Chicago)
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Wald advanced general relativity and quantum field theory in curved spacetime, and wrote a standard graduate textbook on general relativity. Born in New York City, he is the son of the Jewish statistician Abraham Wald and a descendant of a chief rabbi; he is a professor at the University of Chicago. His work clarified black-hole thermodynamics and gravitation.
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Physicist; general relativity and quantum field theory in curved spacetime
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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