1. Robert M Wald is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.
15 Facts About Robert Wald
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Robert Wald is the son of the mathematician and statistician Abraham Wald and great-grandson of the chief rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner.
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Robert Wald earned his Bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1968 and his PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1972, under the supervision of John Archibald Wheeler.
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Between 1972 and 1974, Robert Wald worked as a research associate in physics at the University of Maryland.
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Robert Wald then moved to the University of Chicago, spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the faculty in 1976.
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Robert Wald wanted to move to Chicago in order to work with Robert Geroch and other specialists in gravitation.
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In 1977, Robert Wald published a popular-science book titled Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes explaining Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, and its implications in cosmology and astrophysics.
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Robert Wald has taught first-year graduate courses covering a broad range of topics, including classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and electromagnetism.
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Robert Wald has taught courses on general relativity, his specialty, at both introductory and advanced levels.
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Robert Wald investigates black holes and their thermodynamics, and gravitational radiation-reaction.
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Robert Wald has published over 100 research papers on general relativity and quantum field theory in curved spacetime, many of which have been cited by hundreds of subsequent papers.
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Robert Wald organized The Symposium on Black Holes and Relativistic Stars in 1996, in honor of the late Nobel Prize-winning theoretical astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
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Robert Wald became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1996 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
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Robert Wald delivered a public lecture at the University of Alabama in October 27,2015, titled "The Formulation of General Relativity," celebrating the centennial of Einstein's theory.
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Robert Wald is a member of the LIGO group at the University of Chicago, headed by astrophysicist Daniel Holz.