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| 1942 births | |
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Carter studied at Cambridge under Dennis Sciama . He made several important contributions to the Golden Age Of General Relativity . He succeeded in finding the exact solution of the geodesic equations for the Kerr/Newman Electrovacuum Solution , discovering the extraordinary ''fourth constant of motion'' and the Killing-Yano Tensor . He found the Maximal Analytic Extension of this solution. Together with Werner Israel and Stephen Hawking , he proved the No-hair Theorem in General Relativity , which states that all stationary axisymmetric black holes are completely characterized by mass, charge and angular momentum. More recently, he has formulated a relativistic theory of elastic deformations suitable for studying neutron stars. He is a researcher at the CNRS in Paris. REFERENCES |
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