Robert Wald

Robert Manuel forest ( born June 29, 1947 in New York City ) is a physicist who specializes in general relativity and thermodynamics of black holes. He is the author of the well known and widely used book General Relativity.

Forest studied at Columbia University (Bachelor 1968) and received his doctorate in 1972 from Princeton University. As a post-doc, he was at the University of Maryland, and from 1974 at the University of Chicago, where he became assistant professor in 1976 and professor since 1985.

Wald is a professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute and the University of Chicago, since 2002 when Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Physics. He has authored over one hundred scientific publications, many of which have been cited over a hundred times.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000), the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Sciences ( 2001).

  • Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes (ISBN 0-226-87029-4 ), 1977, 1992
  • General Relativity (ISBN 0-226-87033-2 ), 1984
  • Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and Black Hole Thermodynamics (ISBN 0-226-87027-8 ), 1994
  • As publisher: Black Holes and Relativistic Stars (ISBN 0-226-87035-9 ), 1999
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