Bryce DeWitt
American physicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bryce Seligman DeWitt was an American theoretical physicist noted for his work in gravitation and quantum field theory. Personal life He was born Carl Bryce Seligman, but he and his three brothers, including the noted ichthyologist, Hugh Hamilton DeWitt, added "DeWitt" from their mother's side of the family, at the urging of their father, in 1950. In the early-1970s, this change of name so angered Felix Bloch that he blocked DeWitt's appointment to Stanford University and DeWitt and his wife Cecile DeWitt-Morette, a mathematical physicist, accepted faculty positions at the University of Texas at Austin. DeWitt trained in World War II as a naval aviator, but the war ended before he saw combat. He died September 23, 2004, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 81. He is buried in France, and was survived by his wife and four daughters.
Bryce DeWitt's Published Works
Published Works
- Quantum Theory of Gravity. I. The Canonical Theory (1967) (2419)
- Dynamical theory of groups and fields (1964) (1825)
- QUANTUM THEORY OF GRAVITY. II. THE MANIFESTLY COVARIANT THEORY. (1967) (1215)
- Relativity, Groups, and Topology (1964) (1079)
- Quantum eld theory in curved spacetime (1975) (1035)
- QUANTUM THEORY OF GRAVITY. III. APPLICATIONS OF THE COVARIANT THEORY. (1967) (643)
- Dynamical theory in curved spaces. 1. A Review of the classical and quantum action principles (1957) (495)
- Radiation damping in a gravitational field (1960) (494)
- Renormalization of a classical gravitational field interacting with quantized matter fields (1962) (361)
- Quantum mechanics and reality (1970) (355)
- Black holes (Les astres occlus) (1973) (325)
- Quantum gravity: the new synthesis. (1979) (272)
- Point Transformations in Quantum Mechanics (1952) (152)
- Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space (1975) (133)
- SUPERCONDUCTORS AND GRAVITATIONAL DRAG (1966) (124)
- Topology and quantum field theory (1979) (115)
- Quantum theory of gravity. Essays in honor of the 60th birthday of Bryce S. DeWitt. (1984) (114)
- GRAVITY: A UNIVERSAL REGULATOR (1964) (103)
- Maximally slicing a black hole. (1973) (94)
- Transition from Discrete to Continuous Spectra (1956) (88)
- Quantum Theory without Electromagnetic Potentials (1962) (83)
- Does the topology of space fluctuate? (1986) (78)
- Collision of two black holes: Theoretical framework (1976) (78)
- Relativité, groupes et topologie II : Les Houches, session XL, 27 juin-4 août 1983 = Relativity, groups, and topology II : Les Houches, session XL, 27 juin-4 août 1983 (1984) (75)
- An introduction to quantum gravity (2007) (71)
- The global approach to quantum field theory. Vol. 1, 2 (2003) (69)
- Resource letter IQM-1 on the interpretation of quantum mechanics (1971) (64)
- Theory of radiative corrections for non-abelian gauge fields (1964) (62)
- Quantum‐mechanics debate (1971) (60)
- THE QUANTIZATION OF GEOMETRY (1960) (49)
- Spacetime as a Sheaf of Geodesics in Superspace (1970) (41)
- The Interpretation of Quantum Cosmology and the Problem of Time (2008) (35)
- The Quantum Theory of Interacting Gravitational and Spinor Fields (1952) (32)
- Quantization of fields with infinite-dimensional invariance groups. III. Generalized Schwinger-Feynman theory (1962) (32)
- Explicit Construction of the Exceptional Superalgebras F(4) and $G$(3) (1982) (29)
- MORE ABOUT TACHYONS. (1969) (29)
- Relativité, groupes et topologie = Relativity, groups and topology : lectures delivered at Les Houches during the 1963 session of the Summer School of Theoretical Physics, University of Grenoble (1964) (27)
- Quantum mechanics and reality Could the solution to the dilemma of indeterminism be a universe in which all possible outcomes of an experiment actually occur (1970) (25)
- Definition of Commutators via the Uncertainty Principle (1962) (25)
- Bryce DeWitt's Lectures on Gravitation (2011) (22)
- Science and Ultimate Reality: The Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics (2004) (19)
- Quantization of Fields with Infinite‐Dimensional Invariance Groups (1961) (19)
- EVERETT--WHEELER INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. (1968) (18)
- CHAPTER 9B – The Casimir Effect in Field Theory (1989) (18)
- The quantum and gravity: the Wheeler-DeWitt equation (1997) (18)
- Quantum theories of gravity (1970) (17)
- Gravitational deflection of light: solar eclipse of 30 June 1973 I. Description of procedures and final result. (1976) (15)
- Approximate effective action for quantum gravity (1981) (15)
- Invariant Commutators for the Quantized Gravitational Field (1960) (14)
- Quantum gravity: yesterday and today (2008) (13)
- THE QUANTUM MECHANICS OF ISOLATED SYSTEMS (1998) (13)
- State-Vector Normalization in Formal Scattering Theory (1955) (12)
- From the Peierls bracket to the Feynman functional integral (2004) (10)
- RELATIONS BETWEEN BOUND-STATE PROBLEMS AND SCATTERING THEORY (1956) (10)
- Quantum Gravity Without Ghosts (1998) (9)
- The space of gauge fields: Its structure and geometry (2005) (8)
- Gauge Theory without Ghosts (1995) (7)
- Black holes. 23rd session of the Summer School of Les Houches, Grenoble, France, August 1--31, 1972 (1973) (6)
- Black holes. Lectures delivered at the Summer School of Theoretical Physics of the University of Grenoble at Les Houches. (1973) (6)
- THE OPERATOR FORMALISM IN QUANTUM PERTURBATION THEORY (1955) (6)
- General Relativity-An Einstein Centenary Survey (1979) (5)
- Quantization of fields with infinite-dimensional invariance groups. II. Anticommuting fields (1962) (5)
- Quantum gravity: yesterday and today (2008) (3)
- Nonlinear Sigma Models in 4 Dimensions: A Lattice Definition (1990) (2)
- Noncompact nonlinear sigma models and numerical quantum gravity (1991) (2)
- Theoretical physics in the Alps (1951) (2)
- Quantum Histories, Mysteries, and Measurements (2000) (2)
- On the application of quantum perturbation theory to gravitational interactions (1950) (2)
- The Peierls Bracket (1999) (2)
- Quantum field theory and space-time - formalism and reality (1999) (1)
- The Uses and Implications of Curved-Spacetime Propagators: a Personal View (1996) (1)
- Ensembles of Particles (2011) (1)
- Topics in Quantum Gravity (1984) (1)
- PRELIMINARY REMARKS BEFORE BEGINNING HIS TECHNICAL TALK (1996) (1)
- Bryce S. DeWitt letter to J.A. Wheeler, Hugh Everett's copy, 07-May-1957 (2011) (0)
- Review of the Uses of Invariants in Special Relativity (2011) (0)
- Phenomenological Description of a Conservative Continuous Medium (2011) (0)
- Functional Integration: Volume elements in quantum field theory (2006) (0)
- Analysis over supernumbers (1992) (0)
- Supermanifolds: Super Lie groups. General theory (1992) (0)
- Energy, Momentum and Stress in the Gravitational Field (2011) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- Bryce DeWitt letter to John Wheeler, 19-September-1979 (2011) (0)
- Bryce S. DeWitt letter to John Wheeler, Wheeler's copy, 07-May-1957 (2011) (0)
- Solutions to problems 1-67 in Dynamical theory of groups and fields (1963) (0)
- Super Lie groups. Examples (1992) (0)
- BASIC RESEARCH ON GRAVITATION. (1968) (0)
- Production of Gravitational Fields by Matter (2011) (0)
- Bryce DeWitt letter to John Wheeler 20-April-1967 (2011) (0)
- Supermanifolds: Preface to the first edition (1992) (0)
- Accelerated Motion in Special Relativity (2011) (0)
- Weak Field Approximation. Newton’s Theory (2011) (0)
- The Free Particle: Geodesics (2011) (0)
- Realizations of Continuous Groups (2011) (0)
- The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes (S. Chandrasekhar) (1985) (0)
- Measurement of Asymptotic Fields (2011) (0)
- The Electromagnetic Field (2011) (0)
- Supermanifolds: Selected applications of supermanifold theory (1992) (0)
- “The gauge invariant effective action for quantum gravity and its semi-quantitative approximation” (1983) (0)
- Solubility of the Einstein and Matter Equations (2011) (0)
- Bryce DeWitt referee report on paper, "Everett's Theory and the 'Many Worlds' Interpretation" (2011) (0)
- JOINT REPORT TO AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH. (1965) (0)
- Open Problem: The Measure for the Functional Integral (1997) (0)
- Supermanifolds: Applications involving topology (1992) (0)
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