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    Rainer Kurt "Ray" Sachs (June 13, 1932 - April 16, 2024) was a German-American mathematical physicist, with interests in general relativistic cosmology...
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  • The Sachs–Wolfe effect, named after Rainer K. Sachs and Arthur M. Wolfe, is a property of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), in which photons...
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  • with Rainer K. Sachs, he authored the paper describing the Sachs-Wolfe effect. The disc galaxy DLA0817g is nicknamed the Wolfe Disc in his honor. Sachs, R...
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  • In gravitational theory, the Bondi–Metzner–Sachs (BMS) group, or the Bondi–van der Burg–Metzner–Sachs group, is an asymptotic symmetry group of asymptotically...
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  • poet Paul J. Sachs (1878–1965), American museum director Philip Sachs (1902–1973), American professional basketball coach Rainer K. Sachs (born 1932),...
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  • Joel Lebowitz, Pantur Silaban, John Boardman, Ezra T. Newman, and Rainer K. Sachs. In 1947, no physics department in the United States had a center for...
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  • comprising such first-rate physicists as Roger Penrose, Roy Kerr, Rainer K. Sachs, and Jürgen Ehlers. In 1967, he was appointed as Professor of Physics...
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  • In general relativity the Kantowski-Sachs metric (named after Ronald Kantowski and Rainer K. Sachs) describes a homogeneous but anisotropic universe whose...
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  • University of Texas, working under John Archibald Wheeler, Abraham Taub, Rainer K. Sachs, and Dennis W. Sciama. Tipler became an associate professor in mathematical...
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    K. Robert Dicke, James Peebles, P. G. Roll, and D. T. Wilkinson interpret this radiation as a signature of the Big Bang. 1966 – Rainer K. Sachs and...
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