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Charles William Misner (/ ˈ m ɪ s n ər /; June 13, 1932 – July 24, 2023) was an American physicist and one of the authors of Gravitation. His specialties included general relativity and cosmology. His work has also provided early foundations for studies of quantum gravity and numerical relativity.
Charles Misner è stato un fisico statunitense e uno degli autori di Gravitation. Le sue ricerche includono la relatività generale e la cosmologia. Il suo lavoro ha anche fornito le prime basi per gli studi sulla gravità quantistica e sulla relatività numerica.
25 lug 2023 · Charles W. Misner, an eminent theorist and co-author of the classic textbook Gravitation, died on July 24, 2023. He was 91. Misner received a bachelor’s degree at the University of Notre Dame before his doctoral studies at Princeton University with John Archibald Wheeler.
Charles W. Misner. Professor Emeritus of Physics. University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111. Gravitation Theory Group - Department of Physics. Room 4212. Phone: (207) 841-0844. FAX: (301) 314-9525. E-mail: misner@umd.edu. Research Activities. General Relativity. Numerical GR. CV. Brief CV. Curriculum Vitae. Publications.
Charles W. Misner. Personal: Born Jackson, Michigan, 13 June 1932; married 13 June 1959; four children; Roman Catholic. Education: B.S. Physics, Notre Dame 1952 (mathematics mentor Arnold Ross); Ph.D., Princeton 1957 (mentor John Archibald Wheeler). University Positions: Princeton 1956-63, University of Maryland 1963-2000, now Emeritus.
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Gravitation is a widely adopted textbook on Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, written by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler. It was originally published by W. H. Freeman and Company in 1973 and reprinted by Princeton University Press in 2017.
3 ott 2017 · Gravitation. First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein’s general theory of relativity and offers a rigorous, full-year course on the...
