W
- Hugo D. Wahlquist (Wahlquist fluid),
- John Wainwright (dynamical systems techniques in relativistic cosmology, exact solutions)
- Robert M. Wald (textbook, black hole perturbations, electric fields outside a black hole, quantum field theory on curved spacetimes),
- Arthur Geoffrey Walker (Fermi/Walker derivatives, Robertson/Walker metric),
- Anzhong Wang (Gravitational Collapse, Cosmology and Horava-Lifshtz Gravity)
- Joseph Weber (gravitational wave detectors),
- Hermann Weyl (Weyl vacuums; see also related list below),
- John Archibald Wheeler (coined name "black holes" and popularized them, geometrodynamics, relativistic stars, Zerilli/Wheeler equation, Wheeler/DeWitt equation, textbook),
- Alfred North Whitehead (competing theory),
- Bernard F. Whiting (mode stability of Kerr geometry, regularized Green's functions for classical and quantum fields),
- W. J. Wild (Ernst/Wild electrovacuum),
- Clifford Martin Will (PPN formalism),
- Jeffrey Winicour (JNS mcmsf solution, characteristic evolution and matching),
- Donald M. Witt (topological censorship, chaos),
- Edward Witten (positive energy theorem),
- Louis Witten (Witten electrovacuum solutions),
Read more about this topic: Contributors To General Relativity