# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-rindler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:04:04.498Z

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name: "Wolfgang Rindler"
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description: "Wolfgang Rindler was an Austrian physicist studying general relativity. He is known for introducing the term \"event horizon\" for the boundary of a black hole, Rindler coordinates, and for the use of spinors in general relativity. An honorary member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and foreign member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, he was also a prolific textbook author."
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birthDate: "1924-05-18"
deathDate: "2019-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump