Clifford M. Will
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Clifford M. Will

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Clifford Will is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Florida and Chercheur Associé at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. Born in Hamilton, Canada in 1946, he obtained a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from McMaster University in 1968. In 1971, he obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Following an Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago and an Assistant Professorship at Stanford University, in 1981 he joined Washington University in St. Louis as Associate then Full Professor. He served as Department Chair for 10 years, and in 2005 was named McDonnell Professor of Space Sciences. In 2012 he joined the University of Florida faculty.

He was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2007, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. In 2019, he was awarded the Albert Einstein Medal by the Albert Einstein Society in Bern, Switzerland, and in 2021 received the Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society.

His book Was Einstein Right? won the 1987 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, was selected one of the 200 best books for 1986 by the New York Times Book Review, and was translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Greek, Persian, and Chinese. His latest book, Is Einstein Still Right? is co-authored by Nicolás Yunes.

In 1996, he was named Distinguished Alumnus in the Sciences by McMaster University. In 2004 he received the Fellows Award of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences. In 2005, in celebration of the World Year of Physics, he carried out a 4-week, 21-city National Public Lecture Tour of Canada, sponsored by the Canadian Association of Physicists. In 2013 he was awarded the degree Doctor of Science honoris causa by the University of Guelph, Canada.

His theoretical research focuses on the observational and astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity, including gravitational radiation, black holes, and the interpretation of experimental tests of general relativity.
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