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Wald is a past President of the Orange County Society of Plastic Surgeons and has won numerous awards throughout his career, including being named one of the Top Doctors in Orange Coast Magazine for the last 10 years.
"Wald’s book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all these matters are considered with perception and understanding."—S. Chandrasekhar "A tour de force ...
Robert Wald is a native of Los Angeles but, at age ten, moved with his family to Dallas, Texas in 1958. He attended grade school, junior high school and college there, earning a BFA in movie and television production from SMU in 1970. Robert worked for many years in the thriving Dallas motion picture and TV industry of the 70s and 80s, as a cameraman, editor, director, post production sound ...
The Kadanoff Center hosts a cross-disciplinary research environment bridging a variety of disciplines in theoretical physics, located on the campus of the University of Chicago
Jun 15, 1984 · Robert M. Wald is professor in the Department of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Nov 21, 2022 · Robert M. Wald ( /wɔːld/; born June 29, 1947 in New York City ) is an American theoretical physicist who studies gravitation. His research interests include general relativity, black holes, and quantum gravity.
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man who was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence.
