Photos of my Science Career

I started working on general relativity in 1969.  I first carried out granduate research with Leonard Shiff at Stanford until his untimely death in 1971.  I then moved to the University of Texas at Austin where I carried out my Ph.D. research under Bryce DeWitt, who is the father of numerical relativity.  John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton University was a great inspiration to me deepening my understanding of the mysteries of highly curved spacetime.  Jim Wilson at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory taught me how to use supercomputers to solve complex problems in relativistic astrophysics. Jerry Ostriker was a patient mentor who taught me how to understand real astrophysics.  I spent a memorable term with Martin Rees at Kings College in Cambridge University while I was a junior fellow at Harvard, where I worked closely with Bill Press.

My first Ph.D. student Ken Eppley at Princeton Univ. flanked by John Wheeler (left) and Bill Press (right) Janet and me at Kings College, Cambridge Univ. 1978 Jim Wilson, my guru in computational astrophysics In a pensive mood... In my office in Astronomy creating the NCSA proposal 1983 Accepting my Fahrney Gold Medal for Leadership in Science or Technology (1990)

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