Alfred Schild

7 September 1921 – 24 May 1977

Alfred Schild was a leading Austrian American physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975). Schild was born in Istanbul, Turkey, to German-speaking Viennese Jews, but his early education was in England. Upon the outbreak of World War II, Schild was interned as an enemy alien because he had a German passport, but later he was sent to Canada, where he was allowed to continue his education. He earned his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1944, and by 1946 completed his M.A. and doctorate under the direction of Leopold Infeld, a close colleague

• A new approach to kinematic cosmology
• Die Resorption der Elektrolyte Kalium und Kalzium und Hämolyserverhalten bei der Perfusion des isolierten Dünndarms
• Lectures on general relativity theory
• Mathematical Expositions, No. 5
• Quasi-Stellar Sources and Gravitational Collapse
• Research on general relativity and other gravitational theories
• Tensor Calculus
• Tensor Calculus