Draft:David L Wiltshire

David L Wiltshire
Wiltshire in 2024
Born5 May 1962
New Plymouth, New Zealand
Alma mater
AwardsDan Walls Medal (2023)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury
Doctoral advisorGary Gibbons

David Lauri Wiltshire is a theoretical physics professor at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Wiltshire completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Gary Gibbons.[1]

Wiltshire's research interests include general relativity, cosmology and quantum gravity.

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In 2023 Wiltshire was awarded the Dan Walls Medal by the New Zealand Institute of Physics.[2]

Books edit

  • David L Wiltshire, Matt Visser & Susan Scott, The Kerr Spacetime: Rotating black holes in general relativity (2009) ISBN 978-0-521-88512-6

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