List of contributors to general relativity
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- Peter C. Aichelburg (Aichelburg–Sexl ultraboost, generalized symmetries),
- Miguel Alcubierre (numerical relativity, Alcubierre drives),
- Richard L. Arnowitt (ADM formalism),
- Abhay Ashtekar (Ashtekar variables, dynamical horizons),
- Robert M L Baker, Jr. (high-frequency gravitational waves),
- James M. Bardeen (Bardeen vacuum, black hole mechanics, gauge-invariant linear perturbations of Friedmann-Lema?tre cosmologies),
- Barry Barish (LIGO builder, gravitational-waves observation)
- Robert Bartnik (existence of ADM mass for asymptotically flat vacuums, quasilocal mass),
- Jacob Bekenstein (black hole entropy),
- Vladimir A. Belinsky (BKL conjecture, inverse scattering transform solution generating methods),
- Peter G. Bergmann (constrained Hamiltonian dynamics),
- Bruno Bertotti (Bertotti-Robinson electrovacuum),
- Ji?í Bi?ák (exact solutions of Einstein field equations),
- Heinz Billing (propotype of laser interferometric gravitational wave detector)
- George David Birkhoff (Birkhoff's theorem),
- Hermann Bondi (gravitational radiation, Bondi radiation chart, Bondi mass-energy-momentum, LTB dust, maverick models),
- William B. Bonnor (Bonnor beam solution),
- Robert H. Boyer (Boyer-Lindquist coordinates),
- Vladimir Braginsky (gravitational-wave detector, quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement)
- Carl H. Brans (Brans-Dicke theory),
- Hubert Bray (Riemannian Penrose inequality),
- Hans Adolph Buchdahl (Buchdahl fluid, Buchdahl theorem),
- Claudio Bunster (BTZ Black hole, Surface terms in Hamiltonian formulation),
- William L. Burke (Burke potential, textbook)
- Bernard Carr (self-similarity hypothesis, primordial black holes),
- Brandon Carter (no-hair theorem, Carter constant, black-hole mechanics, variational principle for Ernst vacuums),
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Chandrasekhar limit, colliding plane waves, quasinormal modes, relativistic stars, monograph),
- Jean Chazy (Chazy-Curzon vacuum),
- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (formerly Yvonne Bruhat; local existence and uniqueness of solutions to the vacuum Einstein equations, initial value formulations, textbook),
- Demetrios Christodoulou (naked singularity in LTB dust, stability of Minkowski vacuum),
- Orest Chwolson (gravitational lensing)
- Alejandro Corichi (Fundamental contributions to quantum gravity and quantum loop gravity)
- Thibault Damour (gravitational radiation)
- Georges Darmois (matching conditions, Darmois vacuum),
- Stanley Deser (ADM initial value formulation, effective field theory),
- Bryce DeWitt (Wheeler-DeWitt equation),
- Robert H. Dicke (Brans-Dicke theory, parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism, background radiation),
- Paul A.M. Dirac (graviton, monograph),
- Tevian Dray (asymptotic structure, gravitational shock waves)
- Ronald Drever (LIGO, gravitational wave detectors and observation),
- Arthur Stanley Eddington (early treatises, relativistic stars, Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, role of curvature, parametrized post-Newtonian formalism, popularization of general relativity),
- Jürgen Ehlers (Ehlers vacuum family, symmetries of PP waves, spacetime view of gravitational lensing, Newtonian limit),
- Albert Einstein (creator of general relativity, principle of equivalence, Einstein field equations, gravitational time dilation, gravitational redshift, gravitational lensing, gravitational waves, perihelion of Mercury, cosmological constant, Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann equations, Einstein-Rosen bridge),
- George F. R. Ellis (relativistic cosmological models, classification of curvature singularities, averaging problem in cosmology, gauge-invariant linear perturbations of spatially homogeneous cosmologies, "small universes," monograph, Virbhadra–Ellis lens equation),
- Frederick J. Ernst (Ernst vacuum family, Ernst equation, solution generating methods, Ernst-Wild electrovacuum),
- Loránd E?tv?s (Weak Equivalence Principle experiment),
- Enrico Fermi (Fermi coordinates, Fermi-Walker transport)
- Richard Feynman (sticky bead argument [as 'Mr. Smith'], supermassive stars, derivation of the Einstein field equations from quantum field theory, Feynman Lectures on Gravitation),
- David Finkelstein (Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates),
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (textbook, harmonic coordinates),
- Robert L. Forward (gravitational wave detectors),
- William A. Fowler (relativistic stellar models, gravitational collapse),
- Alexander Friedmann (Friedmann cosmological models),
- Robert P. Geroch (Geroch group, singularity theorems, GHP formalism),
- Kurt G?del (G?del dust solution, closed timelike curves),
- Robert H. Gowdy (Gowdy solutions),
- Marcel Grossmann (taught Einstein the necessary mathematical tools for general relativity)
- Allvar Gullstrand (Gullstrand-Painleve coordinates)
- James Hartle (quantum cosmology, textbook),
- Stephen W. Hawking (Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems, Hawking radiation, black-hole thermodynamics, monograph, Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term),
- Charles W. Hellaby (cosmological models),
- David Hilbert (Hilbert's action principle),
- Banesh Hoffmann (EIH approximation),
- Fred Hoyle (steady-state cosmology),
- Russell Hulse (Hulse-Taylor pulsar),
- Leopold Infeld (Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann equations)
- Richard Isaacson (energy-momentum complex),
- James A. Isenberg (initial value formulations, gluing construction),
- Werner Israel (no hair theorem, tidal forces around black hole singularities, black hole interiors and mass inflation),
- Theodore Jacobson (thermodynamic derivation of Einstein's field equation),
- J?rg Tofte Jebsen (Birkhoff's theorem),
- George Barker Jeffery (Baldwin-Jeffery plane wave),
- Pascual Jordan (Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory),
- Ronald Kantowski (Kantowski-Sachs fluids),
- Anders Karlhede (Cartan–Karlhede classification),
- Edward Kasner (Kasner dust solution),
- Roy Patrick Kerr (Kerr vacuum, Kerr-Schild metrics, use of Lie groups in relativity, Kerr-Farnsworth ansatz),
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (BKL conjecture),
- William Morris Kinnersley (photon rocket),
- Sergiu Klainerman (global stability of Minkowski vacuum),
- Oskar Klein (Klein fluid, Kaluza–Klein theories),
- Arthur Komar (Komar energy-momentum integrals),
- Erich Kretschmann (Kretschmann invariant),
- Martin Kruskal (Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates for Schwarzschild vacuum),
- Wolfgang Kundt (EK classification of symmetries of pp waves),
- Cornelius Lanczos (Lanczos tensor, van Stockum dust),
- Lev D. Landau (Landau-Lifshitz formulation, textbook),
- Georges-Henri Lema?tre (cosmological model, LTB dust, Lema?tre chart on Schwarzschild vacuum),
- Josef Lense (Lense-Thirring precession),
- Tullio Levi-Civita (static vacuums, C-metric),
- André Lichnerowicz (3+1 formalism, matching conditions, Lichnerowicz equation),
- Evgeny M. Lifshitz (Landau–Lifschitz gravitational energy-momentum complex, BKL conjecture, textbook),
- Alan P. Lightman (problem book),
- Hendrik Lorentz (Hamilton's principle, Coordinate-free formulation)
- David Lovelock (Lovelock theory, Lovelock's theorem)
- R. G. McLenaghan (CM invariants),
- Reinhard Meinel (Neugebauer-Meinel dust disk solution),
- Hermann Minkowski (Minkowski spacetime),
- Charles W. Misner (mixmaster model, ADM initial value formulation, ADM mass, textbook)
- John Moffat (various classical gravitation theories)
- Vincent Moncrief (global properties of spatially compact dynamical vacuum spacetimes),
- C. M?ller (energy-momentum complex),
- Moustafa Mosharafa (relation of radiation, mass and energy),
- Gernot Neugebauer (Neugebauer-Meinel dust disk solution),
- Ezra Ted Newman (Newman–Penrose formalism, Kerr–Newman black hole solution, Janis–Newman–Winicour solution, NUT vacuum, RT spacetimes, relation of lensing to Weyl tensor),
- Gunnar Nordstr?m (Reissner-Nordstrom metric),
- Kenneth Nordtvedt (Nordtvedt effect, PPN formalism),
- Igor D. Novikov (Novikov chart in Schwarschild vacuum, no hair theorem, accretion disks around black holes, monograph),
- Robert Oppenheimer (gravitational collapse, Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit, Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equation, Oppenheimer-Snyder black hole),
- Amos Ori (black hole interiors, time machines, radiation reaction, gravitational collapse),
- Achilles Papapetrou (chart for Ernst vacuum family, Majumdar-Papapetrou electrovacuums, Dixon-Papapetrou equations),
- Paul Painlevé (Gullstrand-Painlevé coordinates),
- Roger Penrose (Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems, Penrose diagrams, techniques from algebraic geometry and differential topology, Penrose limits, cosmic censorship hypotheses, Penrose inequalities, geometry of gravitational plane waves, impulsive waves, Penrose-Khan colliding plane wave, Newman-Penrose formalism, Weyl curvature hypothesis, highly influential monograph),
- Alexei Zinovievich Petrov (Petrov classification of algebraic properties of Weyl curvature tensor),
- Tsvi Piran (gravitational collapse),
- Felix A. E. Pirani (gravitational radiation, Petrov-Pirani classification of algebraic properties of Weyl curvature tensor),
- Jerzy F. Plebański (Plebanski vacuum, Plebanski action),
- Eric Poisson (black hole interiors, mass inflation, post-Newtonian approximation, monographs),
- William H. Press (gravitational-wave astronomy, problem book),
- Frans Pretorius (numerical relativity simulation)
- Richard H. Price (Price's theorem, books),
- George Yuri Rainich (Rainich conditions),
- A. K. Raychaudhuri (Raychaudhuri equation),
- Tullio Regge (Regge calculus),
- Hans Reissner (Reissner-Nordstrom metric),
- Wolfgang Rindler (Rindler chart for Minkowski vacuum),
- Hans Ringstr?m (strong cosmic censorship holds for T3-Gowdy vacuums),
- Howard Percy Robertson (role of curvature, parametrized post-Newtonian formalism, Robertson-Walker metric),
- Ivor Robinson (Bel-Robinson tensor, Bertotti-Robinson electrovacuum),
- Nathan Rosen (Erez-Rosen solution, Einstein-Rosen bridge, Einstein-Rosen gravitational waves),
- Remo Ruffini (particle motion in black holes, textbook),
- Rainer K. Sachs (peeling theorem, optical scalars, Kantowski-Sachs fluid solutions, Sachs-Wolfe effect, Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group),
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (vacuum fluctuations),
- Alfred Schild (Kerr-Schild metrics, Schild's ladder),
- Leonard Isaac Schiff (PPN formalism, textbook),
- Richard Schoen (positive energy theorem, gravitational shielding),
- Engelbert Schücking (Ozsváth-Schücking plane wave),
- Bernard F. Schutz (gravitational wave detectors, textbook),
- Karl Schwarzschild (Schwarzschild solution, Schwarzschild radius, Event horizon, Schwarzschild vacuum, Schwarzschild fluid),
- Dennis William Sciama (Einstein–Cartan theory, role in legitimizing black hole concept),
- Roman Ulrich Sexl (Aichelburg-Sexl ultraboost),
- Irwin I. Shapiro (Shapiro effect, observational tests),
- Harlow Shapley (rotating cosmologies),
- Willem de Sitter (de Sitter space, de Sitter precession),
- Hartland Snyder (Oppenheimer-Snyder collapsing dust model),
- Hans Stephani (Stephani dust solution, monograph, textbook),
- Willem Jacob van Stockum (van Stockum dust),
- John Lighton Synge (global structure of Schwarzschild vacuum, world function, O'Brien-Synge matching conditions),
- George Szekeres (Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates for Schwarzschild vacuum),
- Abraham Haskel Taub (Taub plane symmetric vacuum, Taub-NUT vacuum, vacuum solutions foliated by Bianchi manifolds, relativistic hydrodynamics),
- Joseph Taylor (Hulse-Taylor pulsar),
- Saul Teukolsky (Teukolsky's equations, numerical relativity, problem book),
- Hans Thirring (Lense-Thirring precession effect)
- Kip S. Thorne (relativistic multipoles, relativistic stars, hoop conjecture, membrane paradigm, gravitational-wave detectors, textbook, wormholes),
- Frank J. Tipler (classification of curvature singularities, Tipler cylinder),
- Richard Chase Tolman (Tolman surface brightness test, Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equation, Tolman dust solutions, LTB dust),
- Andrzej Trautman (RT spacetimes),
- William G. Unruh (Unruh radiation)
- P. C. Vaidya (Vaidya metric, Vaidya-Patel metric),
- K. S. Virbhadra (Virbhadra-Ellis lens equation Virbhadra-Ellis lens equation, relativistic images, photon surfaces, observational test for the weak cosmic censorship hypothesis),
- George Volkoff (Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit, Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation)
- Robert M. Wald (textbook, black-hole perturbations, black-hole thermodynamics, electric fields outside a black hole, quantum field theory in curved spacetimes),
- Arthur Geoffrey Walker (Fermi-Walker derivatives, Robertson-Walker metric),
- Mu-Tao Wang (quasilocal mass-energy)
- Joseph Weber (gravitational-wave detectors),
- Rainer Weiss (LIGO, gravitational-waves observation)
- Peter Westervelt (indirect evidence for gravitational waves),
- Hermann Weyl (Weyl vacuums; see also related list below),
- John Archibald Wheeler (coined the terms "black holes" and "wormholes," geometrodynamics, relativistic stars, Zerilli-Wheeler equation, Wheeler-DeWitt equation, textbook),
- Paul S. Wesson (relativistic cosmology, Kaluza-Klein theory)
- Clifford Martin Will (parametrized post-Newtonian formalism, relativistic astrophysics, textbook),
- Edward Witten (positive energy theorem),
- Louis Witten (Witten electrovacuum solutions),
- Basilis C. Xanthopoulos (Chandrasekhar–Xanthopoulos colliding plane wave),
- Shing-Tung Yau (positive energy theorem),
- James W. York (initial value formulation, Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term),
- Vladimir E. Zakharov (inverse scattering transform solution generating method),
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (early evidence for no hair theorem, early evidence of black-hole radiation, relativistic astrophysics).