Background
Trautman was born in Warsaw, Poland into an artistic family. His father, Mieczysław, was a painter and taught drawing at a secondary school in Warsaw.
physicist university professor
Trautman was born in Warsaw, Poland into an artistic family. His father, Mieczysław, was a painter and taught drawing at a secondary school in Warsaw.
Warsaw Technology University, Warsaw University.
He made contributions to gravitation as early as 1958. The "Trautman-Bondi mass" is named after him. His mother, Eliza Trautman (née André), was French, though she was born in Spain, where her father, Marius André, was working as a French consular officer
His schooling, at the elementary level, was interrupted by the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
After spending about ten months in Germany, he returned, with his mother (his father had died in 1941) to Poland. In the fall of 1945, they both went to Paris, to stay with their family there.
In France, Trautman attended a Polish secondary school from which he graduated in 1949 and returned to Poland shortly afterwards. During the years 1949-1955, he studied radio engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology.
After earning a master"s degree under the influence of Warsaw Technical"s theoretical physics professor Jerzy Plebański, he continued graduate work in Leopold Infeld"s group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of Warsaw University.
This Institute was to become his permanent place of study and work. He obtained in 1959 the Doctor of Philosophy degree at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Trautman and Ivor Robinson discovered a family of exact solutions of the Einstein field equation, the Robinson-Trautman gravitational waves.
Polish Academy, of Sciences 1969-1976, member since 1977, member Presidium 1972-1983, Vice. Czechoslovak Academy, of Sciences since 1980. Institute Committee of Theory of Relativity and Gravitation 1965-1980, Editorial Staff Annales de 1’Institute H. Poincare, Reports on Mathematical Physics, Institute Journal of Theoretical Physics, Lett.
Mathematics Physical
Married Roza Michalska in 1962.