sister, Elizabeth, was married to Thomas Greytak, a physicist at MIT. In a 2020 interview given to Federal University of Pará in Brazil, Bardeen recalls his journey as a physicist, his father's influences on him, his experiences as a doctoral student of Richard Feynman, and working with Stephen Hawking. Bardeen died on June 20, 2022, at a retirement home in Seattle. He was 83, and suffered from cancer prior to his death. See also Bardeen–Petterson effect Cosmological perturbation theory Post-Newtonian expansion References External links James Bardeen, Perimeter Institute homepage Publications of James Maxwell Bardeen in the SPIRES database arXiv.org preprints for J. Bardeen Search on author James Bardeen from Google Scholar 1939 births 2022 deaths 20th-century American physicists 21st-century American physicists American cosmologists American relativity theorists California Institute of Technology alumni Deaths from cancer in Washington (state) Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Harvard College alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences People from Minneapolis Sloan Research Fellows University of Washington faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society