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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorCharles W. Misner
Dates
June 13, 1932 – present
Authorized Form of Name
Misner, Charles W.
Biography
Abstract
Charles Misner is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Senior Research Scientist at University of Maryland (2000-present). Other institutional affiliations include Princeton University. His research interests include general relativity and numerical relativity.
Important Dates
June 13, 1932Birth, Jackson (Mich.).
1952Obtained BA, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame (Ind.).
1954Obtained MA, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1956 – 1963Instructor in Physics (1956-1959) and Assistant Professor of Physics (1959-1963), Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1957Obtained PhD in Physics, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1963 – presentAssociate Professor of Physics and Astronomy (1963-1966); Professor of Physics (1966-2000); Associate Chair, Department of Physics (1995-1999); and Professor Emeritus of Physics and Senior Research Scientist (2000-present), University of Maryland, College Park (Md.).
1966 – 1967National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow, Cambridge University.
1967Senior Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute.
1972Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology.
1980 – 1981Visiting Scientist, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1994Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Physical Society.
2000 – 2001Visitor, Albert Einstein Institute of the Max Planck Society.
Occupation
Theoretical physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Subjects
Relationships
People
Advisors & Collaborators
Co-wrote "Gravitation."
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
PhD advisor at Princeton University, "Outline of Feynman Quantization of General Relativity; Derivation of Field Equations; Vanishing of the Hamiltonian"; both employed at Princeton University; and co-wrote "Gravitation."
Colleagues
Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Fisher, Michael E. (Michael Ellis)
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Phillips, William D. (William Daniel), 1948-
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Shenstone, A. G. (Allen Goodrich)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wightman, A. S. (Arthur Strong), 1922-2013
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Maryland.
Additional
Everett, Hugh
Finkelstein, David Ritz, 1929-
Goldberg, Joshua N.
Rees, Martin J., 1942-
Institutions
Major Positions
Princeton University. Department of Physics
Obtained MA (1954) and PhD (1957). Instructor in Physics; and Assistant Professor of Physics.
University of Maryland at College Park. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Professor of Physics; Associate Chair, Department of Physics; and Professor Emeritus of Physics and Senior Research Scientist.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Received 1994 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Visiting Professor.
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Visitor, Albert Einstein Institute.
Niels Bohr institutet
Senior Fellow.
University of California, Santa Barbara. Institute for Theoretical Physics
Visiting Scientist.
University of Cambridge. Department of Physics
National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow.
University of Notre Dame. Department of Physics
Obtained BA (1952).
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Charles Misner lecture notes on general relativity, circa 1955.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Charles W. Misner papers, 1966-1969.
Hornbake Library. Archives and Manuscripts Department
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Entropy in cosmology, [undated].
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hugh Everett papers, 1953-1989.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles Misner, 1989 April 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles W. Misner, 2001 May 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hugh Everett, 1977 May.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
Oral history interview with David Finkelstein, 2013 February 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Joshua Goldberg, 2011 March 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Martin J. Rees, 2002 May 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Martin Rees, 1988 March 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Stanley Deser, 2011 March 12.
niels
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
Gravitation [by] Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne [and] John Archibald Wheeler.