Wolfgang Rindler

Background

Rindler, Wolfgang was born on May 18, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Ernst and Margarethe (Kopecki) Rindler. came to the United States, 1956.

Education

Master of Science, Liverpool U., England, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, Imperial College, London, 1956.

Career

He is also a prolific textbook author Rindler is the son of a lawyer Because of his Jewish ancestry, he fled before the Nazis to England in the course of the so-called Kindertransport in 1938.

Rindler gained his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from the University of Liverpool and his Doctor of Philosophy. from Imperial College London.

In 1956 he was at the Cornell University and starting with 1963 at the new founded Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, later called University of Texas at Dallas, where he is still (2013) professor He was visiting scholar at King"s College London (1961/62), at the University Louisiana Sapienza in Rome (1968/69), at the University of Vienna (1975, 1987), at the Cambridge University (Churchill College, 1990).

Rindler has written several textbooks on theoretical physics and relativity. The first edition of his textbook Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological was published in 1969 by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.

The second edition was published by Springer-Verlag in 1977.

Achievements

• Wolfgang Rindler has been listed as a noteworthy Physics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2, Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

    (Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry introdu...)

  • Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2, Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

    (Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry introdu...)

  • Introduction to Special Relativity (Oxford Science Publications)

    (This textbook offers a concise but thorough treatment of ...)

  • Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological (Texts and Monographs in Physics)

    (In retrospect, the first edition of this book now seems l...)

  • Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 1, Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

    (This volume introduces and systematically develops the ca...)

  • Essential Relativity: Special, General, Cosmological
  • Introduction to Special Relativity (Oxford Science Publications) by Wolfgang Rindler (1991-07-11)

Membership

American Physical Society. Royal Astronomical Society. International Astronomical Union.

International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.

Austrian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of Turin.

Connections

Married Linda Veret, 1977. Children: Mitchell, Cynthia, Eric.

Father:

Ernst Rindler

Mother:

Margarethe (Kopecki) Rindler

Spouse:

Linda Veret

child:

Mitchell Rindler

child:

Eric Rindler

child:

Cynthia Rindler