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Roman Ulrich Sexl

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Nationality
  
Austrian

Role
  
Physicist

Alma mater
  
University of Vienna

Education
  
University of Vienna


Fields
  
Theoretical physics

Name
  
Roman Sexl

Doctoral students
  
Reza Mansouri

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Born
  
October 19, 1939Vienna, Austria (
1939-10-19
)

Institutions
  
University of Vienna, Miami University

Known for
  
contributions to general relativity, textbooks on Special relativity

Died
  
July 10, 1986, Vienna, Austria

Books
  
White Dwarfsblack Holes: An Introduction to Relativistic Astrophysics

Similar People
  
Ernst Streeruwitz, Peter C Aichelburg, Galileo Galilei

Notable awards
  
Richard Wohl price

Roman Ulrich Sexl (19 October 1939 – 10 July 1986) was one of the leading Austrian theoretical physicists. He is famous for his textbooks on Special relativity.

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Life

His most cited work is "On the gravitational field of a massless particle" together with Peter C. Aichelburg. Since 1972 he was professor for Cosmology and General Relativity at the University of Vienna. From 1971 to 1975 he was the director of the Institute for Space Exploration at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

In 1980 he received the Robert Wichard-Pohl prize. Today there is the annual Roman-Ulrich-Sexl-Prize for extraordinary achievements in teaching physics.

Publications

  • Relativity (1972)
  • Gravitation and Cosmology (1975)
  • Relativity, Groups and Particles (1975)
  • Aichelburg, Peter C.; Sexl, Roman U. (1979). Albert Einstein: his influence on physics, philosophy and politics. Braunschweig; Wiesbaden: "Published under the auspices of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation". ISBN 3-528-08425-1. 

    • References

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