David Finkelstein

David Ritz Finkelstein ( born July 19, 1929 in New York City ) is an American theoretical physicist.

Finkelstein studied from 1946 to 1949 (Bachelor) at City College in New York and then up to his doctorate in 1953 at MIT in Boston. From 1953 he was at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he was assistant professor in 1956 and from 1958 to 1960 Associate Professor war.1959/60 he Ford Foundation Fellow at CERN ( where he focused on quaternionischer quantum mechanics ). In 1959 he was associate professor at Yeshiva University in New York City, where he was professor of physics in 1964. 1976/7 he was there Chairman of the Physics Department and 1978/9 Dean of the Faculties of Mathematics and Science. In 1980 he became a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also was the 1979/80 Director of the Physics Institute. In 1993 he was a visiting scientist at the Heisenberg Institute for Theoretical Physics in Munich and in 1989 at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford.

1977 to 2005 he was editor of the International Journal of Theoretical Physics.

Finkelstein dealt among other things with general relativity theory ( Finkelstein coordinates, topological kink solutions of the gravitational field equations ) and the foundations of quantum mechanics and their association with the general theory of relativity " chronon " called fundamental space-time quanta, are part of a Clifford algebra are. He also worked on quantum logic. In 1996 Springer his book " Quantum relativity". Finkelstein also dealt with ball lightning and luminous phenomena during earthquakes.

He is married and has four children.