General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler
Observational and experimental data pertaining to gravity and cosmology are changing our view of the Universe. General relativity is a fundamental key for the understanding of these observations and its theory is undergoing a continuing enhancement of its
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Ignazio Ciufolini
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Richard A. Matzner
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Editors Ignazio Ciufolini Università del Salento Dipto. Ingegneria dell’Innovazione Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce Italy [email protected]
Richard A. Matzner University of Texas, Austin Dept. Physics Center for Relativity Austin TX 78712-1081 USA [email protected]
ISSN 0067-0057 ISBN 978-90-481-3734-3 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3735-0 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3735-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010930053 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover design: eStudio Calamar S.L. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
John Archibald Wheeler (seated, first on the left) at the 1970 Clifford Centennial Meeting at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. In the picture can be recognized, among others, Nicola Cabibbo, Robert Dicke, Eugene Wigner, Stephen Hawking, Brandon Carter, Freeman Dyson, Cecile Dewitt, Charles Misner and Tullio Regge
John Archibald Wheeler in his office at the University of Texas at Austin in 1985. Left to right, Arkady Kheyfets, William Wootters, Ignazio Ciufolini, seated, with a model showing the use of the nodes of two LAGEOS satellites to measure frame-dragging, John Archibald Wheeler, Wolfgang Schleich, Philip Candelas, Roberto Bruno and Warner Miller
John Archibald Wheeler at Princeton Univesity in 1990. Left
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