Robert Wald

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Robert Wald (b. June 29, 1947) is a physicist who specializes in general relativity and the thermodynamics of black holes. He is well known as the author of a widely used graduate textbook, General Relativity (ISBN 0-226-87033-2). Wald is a professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute and the University of Chicago. Wald has taught undergraduate courses across a broad range of physics topics, and has been honored as a particularly effective teacher. [1]

Wald has published well over 100 research papers on general relativity, many of which have been cited by hundreds of subsequent papers.

[edit] Books

• Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes (ISBN 0-226-87029-4), 1977, 1992
• General Relativity (ISBN 0-226-87033-2), 1984
• Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and Black Hole Thermodynamics (ISBN 0-226-87027-8), 1994
• Black Holes and Relativistic Stars (edited) (ISBN 0-226-87035-9), 1999

[edit] External links

• Robert M. Wald faculty page at the University of Chicago
• Robert Wald research articles cited by SLAC-SPIRES
• Robert Wald research articles cited by arXiv
• Some properties of Noether charge and a proposal for dynamical black hole entropy, Vivek Iyer and Robert M. Wald, Phys. Rev., D 50 (1994) 846-864 (sample research paper; cited over 250 times)