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Robert M. Wald (/ w ɔː l d /; born June 29, 1947 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. He studies general relativity, black holes, and quantum gravity and has written textbooks on these subjects.
- June 29, 1947 (age 76)
- General Relativity (1984), Wald's formula for black-hole entropy
- United States
Contact Information. Phone: (773) 702-7765. Location: PRC 443. Email: rmwa midway.uchicago.edu. WWW: Web Site. Research. My research has been concerned with a broad range of topics in classical general relativity, cosmology, and quantum phenomena related to gravity.
Professor. Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, Dept. of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College. Address: PRC 443. Phone: 773-702-7765. Email: rmwa@uchicago.edu. Research. My research has been concerned with a broad range of topics in classical general relativity, cosmology, and quantum phenomena related to gravity.
933 East 56th Street. Chicago, IL 60637. Phone: (773) 702-7765. Email: rmwa@uchicago.edu. Background. Ph.D., Princeton, 1972. Dr. Wald is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Research.
Robert M. Wald's 185 research works with 23,922 citations and 6,214 reads, including: Local and Covariant Flow Relations for OPE Coefficients in Lorentzian Spacetimes
A modern approach to classical electromagnetism. Electromagnetism is one of the pillars of modern physics. Robert Wald provides graduate students with a clear, concise, and mathematically precise introduction to the subject, covering all the core topics while bringing the teaching of electromagnetism up to date with our modern understanding of ...
The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes. Second Edition. Robert M. Wald. 2d edition. Writing for the general reader or student, Wald has completely revised and updated this highly regarded work to include recent developments in black hole physics and cosmology.
