tailieunhanh - General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler was born on July 9, 1911, in Jacksonville, Florida, and passed away on April 13, 2008, in Hightstown, New Jersey; his influence on gravitational physics and science in general will remain forever. Among his many and important contributions to physics, he was one of the fathers of the renaissance of General Relativity. After a golden starting age of General Relativity, a few years after the Einstein’s papers of 1915–1916, Einstein’s gravitational theory was for many years, to quote the preface of a 1960 book of General Relativity [1], confined to “an ivory tower . . . and no doubt many a relativist looks forward. | ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY 367 Ignazio Ciufolini Richard A. Matzner Editors General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler A ÃS Springer General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler Astrophysics and Space Science Library EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W. B. BURTON National Radio Astronomy Observatory Charlottesville Virginia U. . bburton@ University of Leiden The Netherlands burton@. nl F. BERTOLA University of Padua Italy J. P. CASSINELLI University of Wisconsin Madison . C. J. CESARSKY European Southern Observatory Garching bei Mỉữnchen Germany P. EHRENFREUND Leiden University The Netherlands O. ENGVOLD University- of Oslo Norway A. HECK Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory France E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL University of Amsterdam The Netherlands V. M. KASPI McGill University Montreal Canada J. M. E. KUIJPERS University of Nijmegen The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN University of Utrecht The Netherlands P. G. MURDIN Institute of Astronomy Cambridge UK F. PACINI Istituto Astronomia Arcetri Firenze Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN Raman Research Institute Bangalore India B. V. SOMOV Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Russia R. A. SUNYAEV Space Research Institute Moscow Russia For other titles published in this series go to http www. series .