James M. Bardeen
James M. Bardeen | |
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Bardeen in 1980 | |
| Born | James Maxwell Bardeen May 9, 1939 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | June 20, 2022 (aged 83) Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BS) California Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Known for | Laws of black hole thermodynamics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Washington Perimeter Institute |
| Thesis | Stability and Dynamics of Spherically Symmetric Masses in General Relativity (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Feynman William A. Fowler |
James Maxwell Bardeen (May 9, 1939 – June 20, 2022) was an American physicist. He worked on general relativity, particularly in formulating the laws of black hole mechanics. He also discovered the Bardeen vacuum, an exact solution of the Einstein field equation.