caption doctoral_advisor work_institution religion birth_place image_size nationality field birth_date known_for article_title name alma_mater
richard price 2007-02-01 may 2012 kip thorne university of texas at brownsville , university of utah paganism new york city , new york 300px american physics 1 march 1943 relativity and cosmology richard h. price
 richard h. price stuyvesant high school , caltech , cornell university
richard h. price

richard h. price -lrb- born march 1 , 1943 -rrb- is an american physicist specializing in general relativity .
price graduated from stuyvesant high school in 1960 , and went on to earn a dual degree in physics and engineering from cornell university in 1965 .
he earned his ph.d. in 1971 from caltech under the supervision of kip thorne .
he has spent most of his career at the university of utah , but in 2004 joined center for gravitational wave astronomy at the university of texas at brownsville .
price is probably best known for a 1972 result now known as price 's theorem .
this is usually informally stated as follows : `` any inhomogeneities in the spacetime geometry outside a black hole will be radiated away '' .
-lrb- any such inhomogeneities can be quantified as nonzero higher multipole moments . -rrb-
price 's theorem explains how the no hair theorem is enforced .
price also made pioneering numerical simulations which established -lrb- nonrigorously -rrb- a precise scenario for the emission of gravitational radiation during the merger of two compact objects -lrb- such as two black holes -rrb- .
subsequent work has largely confirmed the scenario which was first developed in his work .
these simulations have provided a major impetus for the development of gravitational wave detectors such as ligo .
he has done much in development of pedagogical techniques in physics at the undergraduate , graduate , and postdoc levels ; a significant portion at the university of utah in salt lake city , ut .
he creates beautiful atlases of relativity .
he continues to teach and do research as a professor emeritus at the university of texas brownsville .
price is the coauthor of three well known books in general relativity ^ below .
