Professor Emeritus Charles Misner, with collaborator Stanley Deser (Brandeis University), has been awarded the 2015 Einstein Medal

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Published: Monday, 09 February 2015 17:52

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.

Charles Misner was interviewed by Christian Science Monitor

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Published: Tuesday, 09 December 2014 12:22

Charles Misner was interviewed by Christian Science Monitor about the accuracy of the science in the movie “Interstellar” and Misner’s 1973 textbook “Gravitation,” co-authored with Kip Thorne. “Science provides a stepping stone into a universe that it would be exciting in which to live, and which we can enjoy as fiction.”

James Gates was quoted in the New York Times

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Published: Tuesday, 09 December 2014 12:21

James Gates was quoted in the New York Times, November 24, in an article about the one-handed touchdown catch by Odell Beckham at the Giants vs. Dallas Cowboy game, November 23. “…It’s the gyroscopic effect. It means the ball will likely stay on the same line, and that makes it easier for the human eye to see where the center of the ball is headed, which makes it easier to catch.”

Xiangdong Ji was quoted in Science,Xiangdong Ji was quoted in Science

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Published: Tuesday, 09 December 2014 12:20

Xiangdong Ji was quoted in Science, November28, in an article on the extension of the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. “…We are interested in building the ultimate dark matter experiment: a 20-ton scale liquid xenon experiment.”

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