Background
Schild, Alfred was born on September 7, 1921 in Istanbul, Turkey. Son of Ignaz and Fanny (Mandel) Schild.
Schild, Alfred was born on September 7, 1921 in Istanbul, Turkey. Son of Ignaz and Fanny (Mandel) Schild.
Student University College, London, England., 1938-1940. Bachelor of Arts, University Toronto, 1943. Master of Arts (fellow), 1944, Doctor of Philosophy (fellow), 1946.
Came to the United States, 1946, naturalized, 1956. Instructor, Carnegie Institute Technology, 1946-1947, Frank B. Jewett fellow, 1947-1948, assistant professor, 1947-1948, 49-51, associate professor, 1951-1956. On leave as Frank B. Jewett fellow Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, 1947-1948.
Assistant professor of University Toronto, 1948-1949.
Consultant Gulf Research and Development Company, 1953-1956. Advisory mathematician Westinghouse Research laboratories, 1956-1957.
Professor of University Texas, 1957-1977, Ashbel Smith professor physics, 1963-1977, director Center for Relativity Theory, 1963-1972. Visiting professor King’s College, U. London, 1960-1961, Dublin Institute Advanced Studies, Ireland, 1961, Nordisk Institute Teoretisk Atomfysik, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1965-1966, 70-71, U. Sydney (Australia), 1965, Collège de France, Paris, 1973, U. Würzburg, Germany, 1975.
Lecturer International School Physics Enrico Fermi, Italy, 1961, American Mathematics Society Summer Seminar, Cornell Univercity, 1965.
Visiting senior fellow Cambridge University, 1970. Visiting scientist U. Warsaw, 1974, University of Oxford, 1974. Vis: distinguished scientist Argonne National Laboratory, 1977.
Member organizing committee Texas Symposia on Relativistic Astrophysics, from 1963, American Mathematics Society Summer Seminar, Ithaca, 1965. Member International Committee on General Relativity and Gravitation, Bern, Switzerland, 1965-1974. National Science Foundation senior postdoctoral fellow, 1965-1966.
Fellow American Physical Society.
Member American Mathematics Society (member committee applied mathematics 1963-1965, chairman 1964), American Association Physics Teachers, American Astronomical Society, International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation (Executive Committee), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association Mems. Institute for Advanced Study, A.A.U.P.
Member editorial board Journal Mathematics and Mechanics, 1964-1966, Journal Mathematics Physics, 1965-1968, Journal General Relativity and Gravitition, from 1969.
Married Winnifred Zara Beames, August 7, 1943. Children: Carol Helen Marguerite, Frances Kathleen, John David.