What is Bryce DeWitt?
{{Infobox scientist |birth_name = Carl Bryce Seligman | image = Cecile DeWitt and Bryce DeWitt.png | caption = Bruce (right) and wife [[Cécile DeWitt-Morette|Cécile]] (left) | birth_date = January 8, 1923 | birth_place = [[Dinuba, California]] | death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|mf=yes|2004|9|23|1923|1|8}}}} | death_place = [[Austin, Texas]] | nationality = [[United States|American]] | field = [[Theoretical physics|Theoretical physicist]] | work_institution = {{nowrap|[[Institute for Advanced Study]]}} <br /> [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] <br /> [[University of Texas at Austin]] | alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Julian Schwinger]] | doctoral_students = [[Donald Marolf]] | prizes = [[Dirac Prize]] {{small|(1987)}}<br /> [[Pomeranchuk Prize]] {{small|(2002)}}<br>[[Einstein Prize (APS)|Einstein Prize]] <small>(2005)</small> | spouse = [[Cécile DeWitt-Morette]] | footnotes = }} '''Bryce Seligman DeWitt''' (January 8, 1923 – September 23, 2004) was an American [[theoretical physicist]]. He studied gravity and field theories.<ref>Vona DeWitt Smith, ''Tierck Clafsen DeWitt and Descendants of His Son Luycas DeWitt'', Trafford Publishing, 2004, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HioVZV2leOYC&q=bryce+dewitt&pg=PA198 p. 198].<!--source contains apparent typo: 'Saligman' instead of 'Seligman'--></ref> He was awarded the [[Dirac Prize]] in 1987, the [[American Physical Society]]'s [[Einstein Prize (APS)|Einstein Prize]] in 2005, and was a member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|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]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2006-2007/memorials/dewitt/dewitt.html University of Texas obituary] * [