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Charles W. Misner

Born	(1932-06-13)June 13, 1932 Jackson, Michigan, U.S.
Died	July 24, 2023(2023-07-24) (aged 91)
Alma mater	University of Notre Dame Princeton University
Known for	Gravitation Mixmaster universe Misner space ADM formalism Wormhole
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship^[1] Heineman Prize (1994) Albert Einstein Medal
Scientific career
Fields	General relativity
Institutions	Princeton University University of Maryland
Doctoral advisor	John Wheeler Arnold Ross
Doctoral students	Carl H. Brans Richard A. Isaacson James A. Isenberg Richard Matzner Vincent Moncrief C. V. Vishveshwara

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Charles William Misner (/ˈmɪsnər/; June 13, 1932 – July 24, 2023) was an American physicist and one of the authors of Gravitation. His specialties included general relativity and cosmology. His work has also provided early foundations for studies of quantum gravity and numerical relativity.

Biography

Academic training and university positions

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 the 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, and he continued to be a member of the Gravitation Theory Group in the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics. During his career, Misner advised 22 Ph.D. students primarily at Princeton and at the University of Maryland.

Misner held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (also known as the Albert Einstein Institute); the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara; the Pontifical Academy of Cracow (Poland); the Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow (during the time of the Soviet Union); the California Institute of Technology, the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge.

Research

Most of Misner's research fell into the area of general relativity, which describes the gravitational interactions of very massive bodies. He contributed to the early understanding of cosmology - he was one of the first to point out the horizon problem, the role of topology in general relativity, quantum gravity, and numerical relativity. In the areas of cosmology and topology he first studied the mixmaster universe, which he devised in an attempt to better understand the dynamics of the early universe, and developed a solution to the Einstein field equation that is now known as Misner space. Together with Richard Arnowitt and Stanley Deser he published a Hamiltonian formulation of the Einstein equation that split Einstein's unified spacetime back into separated space and time. This set of equations, known as the ADM formalism, plays a role in some attempts to unify quantum mechanics with general relativity. It is also the mathematical starting-point for most techniques for numerically solving Einstein's equations.

In 2015, the Albert Einstein Society presented the Albert Einstein Medal to Deser and Misner for their work; Arnowitt had died the previous year.^[2]

Death

Charles W. Misner died on July 24, 2023, at the age of 91.^[3]

Bibliography

Misner, Charles W.; Kip S. Thorne; John Archibald Wheeler (September 1973). Gravitation. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-0344-0.
Misner, Charles W.; Patrick A. Cooney (1991). Spreadsheet Physics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-16410-8.

References

^ Charles W. Misner, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
^ "South Bristol Physicist Reflects on 50-Year Career". The Lincoln County News. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
^ Charles W. Misner, 1932–2023

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Relativity

Special
relativity

Background	Principle of relativity (Galilean relativity Galilean transformation) Special relativity Doubly special relativity
Fundamental concepts	Frame of reference Speed of light Hyperbolic orthogonality Rapidity Maxwell's equations Proper length Proper time Proper acceleration Relativistic mass
Formulation	Lorentz transformation Textbooks
Phenomena	Time dilation Mass–energy equivalence (E=mc²) Length contraction Relativity of simultaneity Relativistic Doppler effect Thomas precession Ladder paradox Twin paradox Terrell rotation
Spacetime	Light cone World line Minkowski diagram Biquaternions Minkowski space

General
relativity

Background	Introduction Mathematical formulation
Fundamental concepts	Equivalence principle Riemannian geometry Penrose diagram Geodesics Mach's principle
Formulation	ADM formalism BSSN formalism Einstein field equations Linearized gravity Post-Newtonian formalism Raychaudhuri equation Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation Ernst equation
Phenomena	Black hole Event horizon Singularity Two-body problem Gravitational waves: astronomy detectors (LIGO and collaboration Virgo LISA Pathfinder GEO) Hulse–Taylor binary Other tests: precession of Mercury lensing (together with Einstein cross and Einstein rings) redshift Shapiro delay frame-dragging / geodetic effect (Lense–Thirring precession) pulsar timing arrays
Advanced theories	Brans–Dicke theory Kaluza–Klein Quantum gravity
Solutions	Cosmological: Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (Friedmann equations) Lemaître–Tolman Kasner BKL singularity Gödel Milne Spherical: Schwarzschild (interior Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equation) Reissner–Nordström Axisymmetric: Kerr (Kerr–Newman) Weyl−Lewis−Papapetrou Taub–NUT van Stockum dust discs Others: pp-wave Ozsváth–Schücking Alcubierre In computational physics: Numerical relativity

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