Charles W. Misner
American physicist
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Charles W. Misner 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. Wikipedia
Born: June 13, 1932, Jackson, MI
Died: July 24, 2023 (age 91 years)
Notable students: C. V. Vishveshwara, James A. Isenberg, Vincent Moncrief, and more
Education: Princeton University (1957), University of Notre Dame, and Notre Dame College of Science
Academic advisors: John Archibald Wheeler and Arnold Ross
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Albert Einstein Medal, and Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1994)
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