{"id":4,"date":"2026-04-01T14:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:01:18","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\"><div class=\"container px-0\"><div class=\"row align-items-start\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clifford M. Will<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/files\/IMG_5781-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Cliff and life-size cutout of his BFF Al Einstein\" class=\"wp-image-21\" style=\"width:531px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/files\/IMG_5781-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/files\/IMG_5781-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/files\/IMG_5781-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/files\/IMG_5781-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/files\/IMG_5781-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/files\/IMG_5781-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/files\/IMG_5781-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Distinguished Professor of Physics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Cliff&#8217;s research interests are theoretical, encompassing the observational and astrophysical implications of Einstein&#8217;s general theory of relativity, including gravitational radiation, black holes, the physics of curved spacetime, and the theoretical interpretation of experimental tests of general relativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>BSc., Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, McMaster University<br>PhD, Physics, California Institute of Technology <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: cmw@phys.ufl.edu<br> Phone: (727) 542-0434<br> Office: 2071 New Physics Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mailing address:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.O. Box 118440<br>Gainesville FL 32611-8440<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1440,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}