Bernard F. Schutz
Bernard F. Schutz FInstP FLSW (born August 11, 1946, in
Paterson, New Jersey) is an American and naturalised British
physicist. He is well known for his research in
Einstein's theory of
general relativity, especially for his contributions to the detection of
gravitational waves, and for his textbooks. Schutz is a Fellow of the
Royal Society and a Member of the
US National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor of physics and astronomy at
Cardiff University, and was a founding director of the
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in
Potsdam,
Germany, where he led the
Astrophysical Relativity division from 1995 to 2014. Schutz was a founder and principal investigator of the
GEO gravitational wave collaboration, which became part of the
LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). Schutz was also one of the initiators of the proposal for the space-borne
gravitational wave detector LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), and he coordinated the European planning for its data analysis until the mission was adopted by ESA in 2016. Schutz conceived and in 1998 began publishing from the AEI the online
open access (OA) review journal ''
Living Reviews in Relativity'', which for many years has been the highest-impact OA journal in the world, as measured by Clarivate. (The journal is now published by Springer.)
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