Brandon Carter

Brandon Carter ( born 1942 ) is an Australian theoretical physicist. He is primarily known for his work on black holes and for his formulation of the anthropic principle in its present form. Carter conducts research at the CNRS in Paris at the Observatory of Paris - Meudon.

Carter studied at the University of Cambridge with Dennis Sciama. He provided significant contributions to the "Golden Age " of general relativity in the 1960s and 1970s. Together with Werner Israel and Stephen Hawking, he proved the "no -hair theorem" in general relativity theory that static black holes with mass, angular momentum and charge are fully characterized (see the article Black Hole ). In the 80 years he formulated the Doomsday argument.

Formulated in 2005 Carter, Chachoua and Chamel (2005) a relativistic theory for elastic deformations in neutron stars.

Publications

• Global structure of the Kerr family of gravitational fields. Phys. Rev. 174, 1968, 1559-1571.
• Hamilton -Jacobi and Schrödinger separable solutions of Einstein 's equations. Commun. Math Phys. 10, 1968, 280-310.
• An axisymmetric black hole Has only two degrees of freedom. Phys. Rev. Lett. 26, 1970, 331-333.
• With James M. Bardeen, Stephen Hawking, The four laws of black hole mechanics, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 31, 1973, 161-170
• With James Hartle (ed.) Gravitation in astrophysics, Cargese Lectures, 1986 New York:. Plenum Press 1087 ISBN 0-306-42590-4. .
• The general theory of the mechanical, electromagnetic and thermodynamic properties of black holes, in Hawking, Israel ( ed.) General Relativity. An Einstein Centenary Survey, Cambridge University Press 1979
• Black hole equilibrium states, in Bryce DeWitt, Cécile DeWitt - Morette (ed. ), Black Holes, Les Houches Lectures 1973