David Finkelstein: key obituary facts
Is David Finkelstein dead? Yes. David Finkelstein died on January 24, 2016, at age 86.
Cause of death: David Finkelstein's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was David Finkelstein known for?
He was an American physicist (1929-2016).
More about David Finkelstein
Born: 19 July 1929.
Place of birth: New York City.
Place of death: Atlanta.
Gender: male.
Occupation: physicist, university teacher.
Nationality: United States.
Education: City College of New York, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Employer: Georgia Tech, Yeshiva University.
Also known as: David Ritz Finkelstein.
Known for: Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates.
David Finkelstein, an American physicist and emeritus professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, died on January 24, 2016.
Born in New York City on July 19, 1929, he earned his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953.
He taught at Stevens Institute of Technology through 1960, held a Ford Foundation Fellowship at CERN from 1959 to 1960, and later served on the faculty of Yeshiva University from 1964 to 1976 before joining Georgia Tech. Finkelstein was known for work on the Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates, and in 1958 he identified Schwarzschild’s solution of the Einstein field equations as describing a region from which nothing escapes.