A Century of Black Holes: Enigmas, Insights and Paradoxes

Ted Jacobson earned a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Texas, Austin. After postdocs at UCSB and Brandeis, he moved to the University of Maryland where he currently works on gravitational theory. He is a Fellow of the APS and AAAS, and a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute. When he is not pondering the classical and quantum physics of black holes (and the puzzle of perilous plunges into these panptotic pits of the gravitational potential), he is playing guitar, taking walks and fixing things. Since discovering in 12th grade what physics was all about, he has been hooked. He still marvels at the mystery of humanity's access to such deep knowledge of the world.