Robert Wald
Physicist, Author
1947 –
Who is Robert Wald?
Robert M. Wald is a physicist who specializes in general relativity and the thermodynamics of black holes. He is the son of the famous mathematician and statistician Abraham Wald. He is well known as the author of a widely used graduate textbook, General Relativity. Wald is a professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute and the University of Chicago. Wald has taught undergraduate courses across a broad range of physics topics, and has been honored as a particularly effective teacher.
Wald has published well over 100 research papers on general relativity, many of which have been cited by hundreds of subsequent papers.
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- Born
- Jun 29, 1947
United States of America - Also known as
- Robert M. Wald
- Parents
- Profession
- Education
- Princeton University
- Employment
- University of Chicago
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on July 23, 2013
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