Andrzej Trautman
Andrzej Mariusz Trautman ( born January 4, 1933, Warsaw) is a Polish theoretical physicist who deals with General Relativity (GR ).
Life
Trautman was the son of the painter and art teacher Mieczyslaw Trautman (died 1941), his mother Eliza came from a French family (her father Marius André was a French consular official in Spain and poet ). He first attended school in Warsaw, which was interrupted by the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, after he was 10 months with his mother in Germany. Trautman 1945 went with his mother to relatives in France, where he attended a Polish school in Paris until 1949. He then studied at the University of Warsaw Radio Engineering (Diploma 1955), but declined under the influence of his professor Jerzy Plebanski already the theoretical physics. He then joined the theory group of Leopold Infeld at the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he received his doctorate in 1959 (via gravitational radiation ). Previously, he was in 1958 at the invitation of Felix Pirani at Hermann Bondi at King's College London. As a post-doc, he was in 1960 in the group of Abdus Salam at Imperial College London and 1961 with Peter Bergmann at Syracuse University, where he met with Ivor Robinson, Arthur Komar, Ted Newman, Roger Penrose and Engelbert Schücking and worked. Since 1961 he is at the University of Warsaw, 1967. Professor of electrodynamics and relativity as the successor of his teacher Leopold Infeld 1975-1985 he was the Director of The Institute for Theoretical Physics.
He is since 1969 a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Vice President, he was 1979/80, and also of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1965 to 1980 he was a member of the International Committee for Relativity and Gravitation. Trautman has been a visiting scientist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook ( 1976/77 with Chen Ning Yang ) and the ICTP and SISSA in Trieste.
His doctoral counts Jerzy Lewandowski.
Work
Trautman dealt among other things with exact solutions of Einstein's field equations of ART (including an exact specific gravity waves solution in 1960 with Ivor Robinson), gravitational waves, the Einstein - Cartan theory of gravitation, mathematical theory of non- Abelian gauge fields (Yang -Mills theory ) as well as with the mathematical theory of spinors and the spin structure of Riemannian manifolds, where he worked, among others, Thomas Friedrich von Humboldt- University Berlin.
Writings
- With Wojciech Kopczynski: Space Time and Gravitation, Wiley 1992
- With Paolo Budinich: The spinorial chessboard, Springer 1988
- Differential geometry for physicists ( Stony Brook Lectures ), Naples, Bibliopolis 1984
- Pirani, Bondi: Lectures on General Relativity, in Stanley Deser, Ford (Editor) Brandeis Summer Institute, Vol.1, 1964 ( in articles by Trautman: Foundations of General Relativity in current problems )
- Gravitation, in Jagdish Mehra (editor) The physicists concept of nature, 1973, p.179
- Einstein - Cartan theory, in serious polluters (Editor), Proceedings of General Relativity and Gravitation 9 ( Jena 1980 ), 1983
- Conservation laws in general relativity, in L. Witten (Editor) gravity -introduction to current research, Wiley 1962