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Jeffrey H. Winicour

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Jeffrey H. Winicour
NationalityAmerican
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Jeffrey H. Winicour is an American physicist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh,[1] who specialized in the theory of relativity. Winicour's 1964 PhD dissertation was an "investigation of the gravitational coupling of radiation fields in the framework of the general theory of relativity."[2] Winicour was the advisor to Luis Lehner, who received the 1999 Nicholas Metropolis Award from the American Physical Society. The award credited Lehner and Winicour, as advisor, for "developing a method that significantly advances the capability for modeling gravitational radiation by making possible the stable numerical solution of Einstein's equation near moving black holes."[3]

His most cited papers are

  • Janis AI, Newman ET, Winicour J. Reality of the Schwarzschild singularity. Physical Review Letters. 1968 Apr 15;20(16):878. Cited 444 times according to Google Scholar
  • LA Tamburino LA, Winicour JH. Gravitational fields in finite and conformal Bondi frames. Physical Review. 1966 Oct 28;150(4):1039. Cited 255 times according to Google Scholar *
  • Winicour J. Characteristic evolution and matching. Living reviews in relativity. 2012 Dec;15(1):1-99. Cited 38 times according to Google Scholar
  • Bishop NT, Gómez R, Lehner L, Maharaj M, Winicour J. High-powered gravitational news. Physical Review D. 1997 Nov 15;56(10):6298. Cited 160 times according to Google Scholar

References

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  1. ^ "Jeffrey Winicour | Physics & Astronomy | University of Pittsburgh". www.physicsandastronomy.pitt.edu.
  2. ^ Research Review. United States. Air Force. Office of Aerospace Research. Dec 31, 1969. p. 28.
  3. ^ "pitt graduate wins prestigious physics award | University of Pittsburgh News". www.news.pitt.edu.