Robert Wald

Robert M. Wald
Robert M. Wald
	Wald in 2012
Born	June 29, 1947 (age 78)
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Columbia University (A.B. 1968) ; Princeton University (PhD 1972)
Known for	General Relativity (1984); Wald's formula for black-hole entropy;
Father	Abraham Wald
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2001); Einstein Prize (APS) (2017); Albert Einstein Medal (2025); Dirac Medal (ICTP) (2025);
	Scientific career
Fields	Gravitational physics
Institutions	University of Maryland, College Park; University of Chicago;
Thesis	Nonspherical gravitational collapse and black hole uniqueness (1972)
Doctoral advisor	John Archibald Wheeler

Robert M. Wald (/wɔːld/; born June 29, 1947 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. He studies general relativity, black holes, and quantum gravity and has written textbooks on these subjects.