Background
He is the son of the mathematician and statistician Abraham Wald.
He is the son of the mathematician and statistician Abraham Wald.
Wald"s parents died in a plane crash when he was three years old. He is the author of a graduate textbook, Wald is a professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute and the University of Chicago. Wald has taught undergraduate courses across a range of physics topics, and has been honored as a particularly effective teacher.
Wald has published over 100 research papers on general relativity and quantum field theory in curved spacetimes, many of which have been cited by hundreds of subsequent papers.
He is a contributor to the framework of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory.
National Academy of Sciences. American Physical Society.