List of Cosmologists - W

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• Robert M. Wald (1947–) wrote a popular text on general relativity, studied the thermodynamics of black holes
• Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909–2001) developed the standard model of general relativity and studied the mathematics of relativistic reference frames
• David Wands studied inflation, superstrings, and density perturbations in the early universe
• Yun Wang (1964–) uses supernova and galactic redshift data to probe dark energy
• Jeffrey Weeks used cosmic background patterns to determine the topology of the universe
• Simon D. White (1951–) studied galaxy formation in the lambda-cold dark matter model
• David Todd Wilkinson (1935–2002) used satellite probes to measure the cosmic background radiation
• Edward L. Wright promoted big bang theories, studied the effect of dust absorption on measurements of the cosmic background