Peter C. Aichelburg
Peter C. Aichelburg is an Austrian physicist known for his contributions to general relativity, particularly for his joint work with Roman Sexl on the Aichelburg–Sexl ultraboost of the Schwarzschild vacuum.
Life
Peter Aichelburg is the second child of Ludwig Aichelburg and Martha Michalek, a descendant of the Bohemian line of the from Carinthia.Lectures by Walter Thirring influenced him to pursue theoretical problems. He had a scholarship at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy from 1968 to 1969.
Before his retirement in November 2007 Aichelburg taught at the University of Vienna, where he held a position of full professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics.