Professor Emeritus Charles Misner, with collaborator Stanley Deser (Brandeis University), has been awarded the 2015 Einstein Medal by the Albert Einstein Society for “…important contributions to general relativity, in particular the development of the so-called ADM formalism.” In 1959 Richard Arnowitt, Deser and Misner found a way to recast Einstein’s equations in a form that allowed hard-won mechanical and electromagnetic intuitions to be applied to gravity. This enabled a computational approach to become a major method for understanding black hole interactions.
