James Bardeen, an Expert on Unraveling Einstein’s Equations, Dies at 83 - The New York Times

A scion of a renowned family of physicist, he helped set the stage for what has been called the golden age of black hole astrophysics.

After holding postdoctoral positions at Caltech and the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the astronomy department at the University of Washington in 1967. An avid hiker and mountain clim… [+994 chars]

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