Robert Wald

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. [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/970612/wald.shtml]

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

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

External links

* [http://physics.uchicago.edu/t_rel.html#Wald Robert M. Wald] faculty page at the University of Chicago
* [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=find+a+r.m.wald+&FORMAT=WWW&SEQUENCE= Robert Wald research articles] cited by SLAC-SPIRES
* [http://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+wald/0/1/0/all/0/1 Robert Wald research articles] cited by arXiv
* [http://cdsweb.cern.ch/search.py?p=%2F0177947%28CERCER%29%3F%2F&f=sysnos&of=hd#begin 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)