Reinhard Meinel

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Reinhard Meinel is the Head of the Relativistic Astrophysics group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Jena, Germany. In 1995 he published together with Gernot Neugebauer a complete analytical solution to the field equations of Einstein's Theory of gravity in the case of a rigidly rotating disk of dust. He is internationally recognized as being one of the leading experts on the field of analytical gravity, and listed as a major contributor to general relativity. Professor Meinel is also actively engaged in teaching, and was awarded the Teaching Award of the Physics Faculty in Jena on 06/06/2007 for his course on Quantum Mechanics I.

[edit] See also

• Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

[edit] Sources

• http://www.tpi.uni-jena.de/gravity/People/meinel/
• http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v75/i17/p3046_1