Bryce DeWitt

Bryce Seligman DeWitt (January 8, 1923 – September 23, 2004) was an American theoretical physicist. He studied gravity and field theories.Vona DeWitt Smith, Tierck Clafsen DeWitt and Descendants of His Son Luycas DeWitt, Trafford Publishing, 2004, p. 198. He was awarded the Dirac Prize in 1987, the American Physical Society's Einstein Prize in 2005, and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DeWitt created the Wheeler–DeWitt equation for the wavefunction of the Universe with John Archibald Wheeler and advanced the formulation of the Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

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Other websites
 University of Texas obituary
 INSPIRE-HEP list of Dewitt's most famous papers
 Dirac Prize citation, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
 Einstein Prize citation, American Physical Society
 Oral History interview transcript with Bryce DeWitt February 28, 1995, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives 
 Gaina Alex: The Quantum Gravity Simposim in Moscow, 1987 Gaina Alex: ГОСТИННАЯ:ФОРУМ: Александр Александров *Сборник рассказов*:РЕПРЕССИРОВАННАЯ НАУКА (PURGED SCIENCE)
National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir

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