Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Saul wins the Einstein Prize from APS

Saul Teukolsky won the 2021 Einstein Prize from the APS. He shares it with Cliff Will. They say it's "for outstanding contributions to observational tests of general relativity with theories of gravitational waves, astrophysical black holes, and neutron stars."

Saul was my PhD advisor together with Ira Wasserman. They were amazing. I've watched Saul build the group that run the first simulation that produced a BH waveform -- the first orbit was such a big thing -- and then they produced LIGO templates. Later LIGO saw something very similar to the templates, and the first gravitational waves were observed. The books Saul has written: Numerical Recepies and "Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars" are in the library of most graduate students across the world. I can't think of anyone who deserves the prize more. So proud!

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