Clifford Will, professor and chair of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, will deliver two Thomas Gold Lectures at Cornell on Sept. 25 and 28. Both lectures will be at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall and are free and open to the public.
The Sept. 25 lecture, a joint physics/astronomy colloquium, will be titled, "Einstein's Relativity Put to Nature's Test: a Turn-of-the-Century Perspective." The Sept. 28 lecture will be titled "Was Einstein Right?"
Will is a member of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he received his B.Sc. in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from McMaster University in 1968. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971.
He was an Enrico Fermi postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago from 1972 until joining the faculty of Stanford University in 1974. In 1981 he joined Washington University as an associate professor, becoming a full professor in 1985. He was named chair of the university's physics department in 1991.
Will is a widely published researcher and author, whose research interests encompass the observational and astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity, including gravitational radiation, black holes, cosmology, the physics of curved space time and the theoretical interpretation of experimental tests of general relativity. He is the author of the popular book Was Einstein Right?, which will be the basis of his Sept. 28 lecture.
The Thomas Gold Lecture Series is sponsored by Cornell's Department of Astronomy and the College of Arts and Sciences in honor of Thomas Gold, Cornell professor of astronomy emeritus. The series brings a noted astronomer to Cornell each year for public lectures and colloquia with faculty and students.
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