Robert M. Wald is a physicist

Physicist

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 who specializes in general relativity

General relativity

General relativity or the general theory of relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics...

 and the thermodynamics

Thermodynamics

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 of black hole

Black hole

A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that...

s. He is well known as the author of a widely used graduate textbook, General Relativity

General Relativity (book)

In physics and especially relativity, General Relativity is a popular textbook on Einstein's theory of general relativity written by Robert Wald....

(ISBN 0-226-87033-2). Wald is a professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute

Enrico Fermi Institute

The Institute for Nuclear Studies was founded September, 1945 as part of the University of Chicago with Samuel King Allison as director. On November 20, 1955 it was renamed The Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies...

 and the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. 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 (book)
  General Relativity (book)
  In physics and especially relativity, General Relativity is a popular textbook on Einstein's theory of general relativity written by Robert Wald....
  
  (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

• Robert M. Wald faculty page at the University of Chicago
• Robert Wald research articles cited by SLAC
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• Robert Wald research articles cited by arXiv
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• 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)