Roman Ulrich Sexl Explained

Roman Ulrich Sexl
Birth Date:19 October 1939
Birth Place:Vienna, Austria
Death Place:Vienna, Austria
Nationality:Austrian
Fields:Theoretical physics
Workplaces:University of Vienna, Miami University
Alma Mater:University of Vienna
Doctoral Students:Reza Mansouri
Known For:contributions to general relativity, textbooks on Special relativity
Awards:Richard Wohl price

Roman Ulrich Sexl (19 October 1939 – 10 July 1986) was one of the leading Austrian theoretical physicists. He is famous for his textbooks on Special relativity.

Life

His most cited work is "On the gravitational field of a massless particle" together with Peter C. Aichelburg.[1] Since 1972 he was professor for Cosmology and General Relativity at the University of Vienna, where, from 1969, he was director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics. From 1971 to 1975 he was the director of the Institute for Space Exploration at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

In 1980 he received the Robert Wichard-Pohl prize.[2] Today there is the annual Roman-Ulrich-Sexl-Prize for extraordinary achievements in teaching physics.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=find+a+aichelburg&rm=citation Inspire Publication list of Peter Aichelburg ordered by citations
  2. [:de:Robert-Wichard-Pohl-Preis]