James Hartle

Details

Instance of

human

Born

20 August 1939

Died

17 May 2023

Place of birth

Baltimore

Place of death

Zurich

Sex or gender

male

Given name

James, Burkett

Family name

Hartle

Field of work

general relativity

Occupation

astrophysicist

Position held

professor emeritus

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Sloan Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo, honorary member, Einstein Prize, Fellow of the American Physical Society

academic degree

Doctor of Philosophy

different from

Rusudan Beridze

doctoral advisor

Murray Gell-Mann

doctoral student

John T. Whelan, David A. Craig, Kristin Ann Schleich, Jonathan Z. Simon

educated at

Princeton University, California Institute of Technology

employer

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Chicago, University of Chicago, Gonville and Caius College, Isaac Newton Institute, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Fe Institute

languages spoken, written or signed

English

member of

International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Astronomical Society

notable work

Wave function of the Universe, Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity, The Quantum Universe: Essays on Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Cosmology, and Physics in General

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