Peter C. Aichelburg (born 9 November 1941) is an Austrian

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

known for his contributions to

general relativity General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity and Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of gravitation in modern physics ...

, particularly for his joint work with Roman Sexl on the

Aichelburg–Sexl ultraboost In general relativity, the Aichelburg–Sexl ultraboost is an exact solution which models the spacetime of an observer moving towards or away from a spherically symmetric gravitating object at nearly the speed of light. It was introduced by Pe ...

of the Schwarzschild vacuum.

Life

Peter Aichelburg is the second child of Ludwig Aichelburg (born 1917) and Martha Michalek (born 1920), a descendant of the Bohemian line of the from

Carinthia Carinthia (german: Kärnten ; sl, Koroška ) is the southernmost States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The main language is German language, German. Its regional dialects belong to t ...

. Lectures by

Walter Thirring Walter Thirring (29 April 1927 – 19 August 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named. He was the son of the physicist Hans Thirring.Thirring, H. Über die Wirkung rotierender ferner Massen ...

influenced him to pursue theoretical problems. He had a scholarship at the

International Centre for Theoretical Physics The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is an international research institute for physical and mathematical sciences that operates under a tripartite agreement between the Italian Government, United Nations Education ...

(ICTP), Trieste, Italy from 1968 to 1969.Wissenschaftliche Laufbahn Peter C Aichelburg
/ref> Before his retirement in November 2007 Aichelburg taught at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

, where he held a position of full professor ( Univ.-Prof. Dr. ) at the Institute of Theoretical Physics.Abschiedsvorlesung von Peter Christian Aichelburg
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Personal

Peter Aichelburg has a wife and a son.

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20th-century Austrian physicists Living people Academic staff of the University of Vienna 1941 births {{physicist-stub