Bryce DeWitt
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| Bryce Seligman DeWitt | |
| Born | January 8, 1923 |
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| Died | September 23, 2004 (aged 81) |
| Residence | United States of America |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Theoretical physicist |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Texas at Austin |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Notable awards | Dirac Prize Einstein Prize |
Bryce Seligman DeWitt (January 8, 1923 – September 23, 2004) was a theoretical physicist best known for formulating canonical quantum gravity, one of the first approaches to quantizing general relativity; for formulating the Wheeler-deWitt equation for the wavefunction of the universe with John Archibald Wheeler; and for advancing the formulation of the Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. Afterwards he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Dirac Prize in 1987, the American Physical Society's Einstein Prize in 2005, and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He was born Carl Bryce Seligman but changed his name in the 1950s. He was married to accomplished mathematical physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette. He died September 23, 2004 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 81.
[edit] Books
- The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Princeton Series in Physics, Princeton University Press (1973), ISBN 0-691-08131-X. Bryce DeWitt, R. Neill Graham, eds.
- The Global Approach to Quantum Field Theory, The International Series of Monographs on Physics, Oxford University Press (2003), ISBN 978-0198510932. Bryce DeWitt.
- "Sopra un raggio di luce", Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 2005
[edit] External links
- University of Texas obituary
- SPIRES list of Dewitt's most-famous papers
- Dirac Prize citation, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
- Einstein Prize citation, American Physical Society
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