Andrzej Trautman

Andrzej Trautman
Born (1933-01-04) 4 January 1933 (age 91)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Alma materWarsaw University of Technology
Known forRobinson–Trautman gravitational waves
Trautman recovery theorem in Newton–Cartan theory
AwardsMarian Smoluchowski Medal (1986)
Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsInstitute of Theoretical Physics of Warsaw University
Doctoral advisorLeopold Infeld

Andrzej Mariusz Trautman (born January 4, 1933, in Warsaw) is a Polish mathematical physicist who has made contributions to classical gravitation in general and to general relativity in particular.

He made contributions to gravitation as early as 1958.[1] The "Trautman-Bondi mass" is named after him.[2]

  1. ^ Radiation and boundary conditions in the theory of gravitation, Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci., S´erie sci. math., astr. et phys. VI (1958), 407–412.
  2. ^ Chrusciel et al "The Trautman-Bondi mass of hyperboloidal initial data sets" Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 8 (2004) 83–139