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Also Known As Roy Patrick Kerr
Born May 16, 1934 (age 90) • New Zealand
Subjects Of Study black hole • general relativity
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Kip Thorne
American physicist
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
American astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
An artist's representation of Penrose tiling
Roger Penrose
British mathematician
Edward Arthur Milne
British astrophysicist
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Pierre Deligne
Belgian mathematician
Edward Lorenz
American meteorologist and mathematician
Jean Bourgain
Belgian mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich
Russian mathematician
Vaughan Jones
Vaughan Jones
New Zealand mathematician
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Consider how Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity led to a better understanding of planetary motion
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher

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