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- Stephen Hawking describes Kerr's discovery in :- In 1963, Roy Kerr, a New Zealander, found a set of solutions of the equations of general relativity that described rotating black holes.
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Roy Patrick Kerr CNZM FRS FRSNZ (/ k ɜːr /; born 16 May 1934) is a New Zealand mathematician who discovered the Kerr geometry, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity.
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Roy Kerr (born May 16, 1934, Kurow, New Zealand) is a New Zealand mathematician who solved (1963) Einstein’s field equations of general relativity to describe rotating black holes, thus providing a major contribution to the field of astrophysics.
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Roy Kerr is a New Zealand mathematician who found a solution to Einstein's field equations which describes a rotating black hole.
Apr 11, 2019 · Professor Kerr’s discovery triggered a revolution in the field of astrophysics, and is now known as the ‘Kerr geometry’ or 'Kerr solution’. Dr Kerr returned to New Zealand and the University of Canterbury in 1971, where he became a Professor of Mathematics for 22 years until his retirement in 1993.
May 16, 2016 · The solution for a charged, spherical, non-rotating body, the Reissner–Nordström metri c, was discovered soon afterwards in the late 1910s. However, it was Roy Kerr who managed to find the exact solution for an uncharged, rotating black-hole.
Roy Kerr’s solution emerged coincidentally with the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing ground—at long last—for general relativity. Today, scientists routinely cite the Kerr solution, but even among specialists, few know the story of how Kerr cracked Einstein’s code.
In 1963, while working at the University of Austin in Texas, Dr Kerr did something that had eluded scientists for 47 years - he discovered the solution to Einstein’s equations that define the space outside a rotating star or black hole.
