Bryce DeWitt

Bryce DeWitt
Bruce (right) and wife Cécile (left)
Born	Carl Bryce Seligman January 8, 1923 Dinuba, California
Died	September 23, 2004(2004-09-23) (aged 81) Austin, Texas
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University
Spouse	Cécile DeWitt-Morette
Awards	Dirac Prize (1987) Pomeranchuk Prize (2002) Einstein Prize (2005)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physicist
Institutions	Institute for Advanced Study University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisor	Julian Schwinger
Doctoral students	Donald Marolf

Bryce Seligman DeWitt (January 8, 1923 – September 23, 2004) was an American theoretical physicist. He studied gravity and field theories. He was awarded the Dirac Prize in 1987, the American Physical Society's Einstein Prize in 2005, and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DeWitt created the Wheeler–DeWitt equation for the wavefunction of the Universe with John Archibald Wheeler and advanced the formulation of the Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Other websites

• University of Texas obituary
• INSPIRE-HEP list of Dewitt's most famous papers
• Dirac Prize citation, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
• Einstein Prize citation, American Physical Society
• Oral History interview transcript with Bryce DeWitt February 28, 1995, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives Archived January 13, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
• Gaina Alex: The Quantum Gravity Simposim in Moscow, 1987 Gaina Alex: ГОСТИННАЯ:ФОРУМ: Александр Александров *Сборник рассказов*:РЕПРЕССИРОВАННАЯ НАУКА (PURGED SCIENCE)
• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir