Charles W. Misner papers

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Charles W. Misner papers

1960-1973

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/24679

The collection spans from 1960 to 1973 and primarily contains correspondence and two manuscript rough drafts for the 1973 textbook, Gravitation, co-authored by Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler. Also included are Misner's lecture notes, assignments, and exams for physics courses taught in 1966 and 1968. Major topics in the papers encompass gravitational theory, relativity, geometrodynamics, and space-time.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668017

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Misner, Charles W., 1932-

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Charles William Misner (theoretical physics, cosmology). Professor of physics, University of Maryland, College Park from 1976. From the description of Lecture notes on general relativity, ca. 1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78630784 ...