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Charles Misner

Charles W. Misner
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Born (1932-06-13) June 13, 1932 (age 84)
Jackson, Michigan, United States
Fields General relativity
Institutions Princeton University
University of Maryland
Alma mater University of Notre Dame
Princeton University
Doctoral advisor John Wheeler
Doctoral students Carl H. Brans
Ralph F. Baierlein
Lawrence C. Shepley
Walter C. Hernandez Jr.
Richard A. Isaacson
Richard A. Matzner
Vincent Moncrief
C. V. Vishveshwara
Samaresh C. Maitra
Michael P. Ryan Jr.
D. M. Chitre
Leslie G. Fishbone
Beverly K. Berger
Reinhard A. Breuer
Paul L. Chrzanowski
James M. Nester
James A. Isenberg
William A. Hiscock
Terrence J. Honan
Mark D. Somers
Christopher R. Stephens
David R. Fiske
Conrad Schiff
Known for Gravitation
Mixmaster universe
Misner space
ADM formalism
Wormhole
Notable awards Guggenheim Fellowship
Heineman Prize (1994)
Signature

Charles W. Misner (/ˈmɪsnər/; born June 13, 1932) is an American physicist and one of the authors of Gravitation. His specialties include general relativity and cosmology. His work has also provided early foundations for studies of quantum gravity and numerical relativity.

Misner received his B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1952. He then moved to Princeton University where he earned an M.A. in 1954 and completed his Ph.D. in 1957. His dissertation, Outline of Feynman Quantization of General Relativity; Derivation of Field Equations; Vanishing of the Hamiltonian, was completed under John Wheeler.

Prior to completing his Ph.D., Misner joined the faculty of Princeton Physics Department with the rank of Instructor (1956–1959) and was subsequently promoted to assistant professor (1959–1963). In 1963 he moved to the University of Maryland, College Park as an associate professor and achieved full professor status there in 1966. Since 2000, Misner has been Professor Emeritus of Physics, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, where he continues to be a member of the Gravitation Theory Group. During his career, Misner advised 22 Ph.D. students primarily at Princeton and at the University of Maryland.


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