Wolfgang Rindler
Wolfgang Rindler · Science & Medicine
Physicist; relativity and Rindler coordinates
1924, Vienna, Austria — 2019, Dallas, Texas, United States
Austria · United Kingdom · United States (Texas)
Wolfgang Rindler is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; relativity and Rindler coordinates
Wolfgang Rindler was a physicist and relativist whose textbooks taught generations of students, and who popularized the term 'event horizon' and the study of accelerated observers through the Rindler coordinates named after him. He spent much of his career at the University of Texas at Dallas. Born to a Jewish family in Vienna, he escaped Nazi Austria as a child on the Kindertransport to England.
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Physicist; relativity and Rindler coordinates
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