Peter Gabriel Bergmann (24 March 1915 – 19 October 2002[2]) was a German-American physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions.
[5] Bergmann's family scattered all over the world during Nazi rule; his sister Clara stayed behind and ultimately was murdered at Auschwitz.
[6] Bergmann was a professor at Syracuse University from 1947 to 1982, where he was an advisor for 32 doctoral students including Joel Lebowitz, Pantur Silaban, John Boardman, Ezra T. Newman, and Rainer K.
A 1949 Physical Review paper by Bergmann's program contained the key ideas of nonperturbative canonical general relativity.
[11] After he retired from Syracuse, he was given Desk space at New York University where he worked with his close friend, physicist Engelbert Schucking until 1999.
[14] His other textbooks were: Bergmann was posthumously awarded the inaugural Einstein Prize in 2003 with John A. Wheeler for "pioneering investigations in general relativity, including gravitational radiation, black holes, spacetime singularities, and symmetries in Einstein’s equations, and for leadership and inspiration to generations of researchers in general relativity".