Hartland Snyder

Hartland Sweet Snyder (1913 – May 22, 1962) was an American physicist[1] who, together with J. Robert Oppenheimer, showed how large stars would collapse to form black holes.[2] This work modeled the gravitational collapse of a pressure-free homogeneous fluid sphere and found that it would be unable to communicate with the rest of the universe.[3] This discovery was depicted in the movie Oppenheimer, where Snyder was portrayed by actor Rory Keane.[5] Some publications Snyder authored together with Ernest Courant laid the foundations for the field of accelerator physics.[6] In particular, Snyder with Courant and Milton Stanley Livingston developed the principle of strong focusing that made modern particle accelerators possible.
Salt Lake CityBerkeley, CaliforniaUniversity of UtahUniversity of California, BerkeleyCourant–Snyder parametersOppenheimer–Snyder modelStrong focusingTheoretical physicsNorthwestern UniversityBrookhaven National LaboratoryDoctoral advisorJ. Robert Oppenheimerphysicistblack holesmodeledOppenheimerHistorianDavid C. CassidyNobel Prize in PhysicsErnest Courantaccelerator physicsMilton Stanley Livingstonbachelor of scienceUniversity of California at BerkeleyMaurice GoldhaberantiprotonsLawrence Radiation LaboratoryNoncommutative quantum field theoryQuantum spacetimeTimeline of gravitational physics and relativityScience (journal)Courant, E. D.Livingston, M. S.Snyder, H. S.Physical ReviewBibcode