Brandon Carter
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Brandon Carter (born 1942) is a theoretical physicist, most famous for his work on the properties of black holes and for introducing the anthropic principle.
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.
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