List of contributors to general relativity

This is a partial list of persons who have made major contributions to the development of standard mainstream general relativity. One simple rule of thumb for who belongs here is whether their contribution is recognized in the canon of standard general relativity textbooks. Some related lists are mentioned at the bottom of the page.

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  • Arthur Stanley Eddington (early book, relativistic stars, Eddington chart on Schwarzschild vacuum, role of curvature, PPN formalism, popularization of general relativity)
  • Jürgen Ehlers (Ehlers vacuum family, symmetries of PP waves, spacetime view of gravitational lensing, Newtonian limit),
  • Albert Einstein (the creator of general relativity, with various contributions too important to attempt to summarize here),
  • George F. R. Ellis (relativistic cosmological models, classification of curvature singularities, averaging problem in cosmology, gauge-invariant linear perturbations of spatially homogeneous cosmologies, "small universes", monograph, Virbhadra–Ellis lens equation),
  • Roberto Emparan (black rings)
  • G. Erez (Erez/Rosen vacuum),
  • Frederick J. Ernst (Ernst vacuum family, Ernst equation, solution generating methods, Ernst/Wild electrovacuum),
  • Loránd Eötvös (Weak Equivalence Principle experiment),
  • Frank B. Estabrook (hyperbolic formulations of the EFE),

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  • David L. Farnsworth (use of Lie groups in relativity, Kerr/Farnsworth ansatz),
  • Valeria Ferrari (Chandrasekhar/Ferrari colliding plane wave, Ferrari/Ibañez colliding plane wave, relativistic stars),
  • Alexander Feinstein (Inhomogeneous Cosmologies, Gravitational Solitons, Colliding Plane Waves, Tachyonic Inflation),
  • Enrico Fermi (Fermi coordinates, Fermi-Walker transport)
  • Richard Feynman (sticky bead argument [as 'Mr. Smith'], quantum gravity),
  • David Finkelstein (rediscovered Eddington chart on Schwarzschild vacuum),
  • Helmut Friedrich (nonlinear global stability of de Sitter spacetime, peeling behavior is generic under small global nonlinear perturbations of Minkowksi spacetime, symmetric hyperbolic formulations of Einstein's field equations),
  • Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (textbook, harmonic chart),
  • Gyula Fodor (Fodor method for generating static spherically symmetric perfect fluid solutions),
  • Robert L. Forward (gravitational wave detectors),
  • William A. Fowler (relativistic stellar models, gravitational collapse),
  • Alexander Friedmann (Friedmann cosmological models),
  • John L. Friedman (topological censorship),
  • C. Frønsdal (global structure of Schwarzschild vacuum),

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  • J. Ibañez (colliding plane wave, solution generating methods, Ferrari/Ibañez colliding plane waves),
  • Leopold Infeld (Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann equations)
  • Richard Isaacson (energy-momentum complex),
  • James A. Isenberg (initial value formulations, gluing construction),
  • J. M. Islam (monograph),
  • Werner Israel (no hair theorem, tidal forces around black hole singularities, black hole interiors and mass inflation),

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  • Malcolm A. H. MacCallum (non-tilted spatially homogeneous cosmologies, exact solutions book),
  • M. Mathisson (Mathisson–Dixon–Papapetrou equations, Mathisson–Pirani condition in the Kerr metric),
  • Richard A. Matzner (popularized Penrose picture of gravitational wave, rotating cosmologies),
  • Marc Mars (Mars vacuum),
  • David Maxwell (Yamabe number criterion for existence of asymptotically flat vacuum solutions),
  • R. G. McLenaghan (CM invariants),
  • Reinhard Meinel (Neugebauer/Meinel dust disk solution),
  • M. A. Melvin (Melvin electrovacuum),
  • A.W.K. Metzner (Gravitational waves, Bondi–Metzner–Sachs Group)
  • Hermann Minkowski (spacetime),
  • Charles W. Misner (mixmaster model, ADM initial value formulation, ADM mass, textbook)
  • John Moffat (various classical gravitation theories)
  • Vincent Moncrief (global properties of spatially compact dynamical vacuum spacetimes),
  • C. Møller (energy-momentum complex),
  • Moustafa Mosharafa (Relation of radiation, mass and energy),

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  • S. O'Brien (O'Brien/Synge matching conditions),
  • Peter O'Donnell (Lanczos potential theory),
  • Niall Ó Murchadha (initial value formulation, proof of the Penrose inequality in spherical symmetry (with E. Malec), mathematical relativity including analysis of quasi-local mass and the constraint equations),
  • Robert Oppenheimer (gravitational collapse, Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit, Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equation, Oppenheimer-Snyder black hole),
  • Amos Ori (black hole interiors, time machines, radiation reaction, gravitational collapse),
  • István Ozsváth (Ozsváth/Schücking plane wave),

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  • Georgios O. Papadopoulos (Papadopoulos-Xanthopoulos solution),
  • Achilles Papapetrou (chart for Ernst vacuum family, Majumdar-Papapetrou electrovacuums, Dixon-Papapetrou equations),
  • L.K. Patel (Vaidya-Patel solution),
  • Paul Painlevé (Painlevé chart in Schwarzschild vacuum),
  • Roger Penrose (singularity theorems, conformal compactification and techniques from algebraic geometry, Penrose limits, cosmic censorship hypotheses, Penrose inequalities, geometry of gravitational plane waves, impulsive waves, Penrose/Khan colliding plane wave, Newman/Penrose formalism, twistor theory, Weyl curvature hypothesis, highly influential monograph),
  • Asher Peres (gravitational wave maverick),
  • Zoltán Perjés (relavistic multipoles, Ernst vacuums),
  • Volker Perlick (solution methods, strong lensing),
  • Alexei Zinovievich Petrov (A. Z. Petrov or Aleksey Zinovjevitch Petrov; Petrov classification of algebraic properties of Weyl curvatue tensor),
  • Tsvi Piran (gravitational collapse),
  • Felix A. E. Pirani (gravitational radiation, Petrov/Pirani classification of algebraic properties of Weyl curvature tensor),
  • Jerzy F. Plebański (Plebanski vacuum, Plebanski action),
  • Boris Podolsky (EPR paradox),
  • Eric Poisson (black hole interiors, mass inflation, monograph),
  • William H. Press (gravitational wave astronomy, problem book),
  • Frans Pretorius (numerical relativity simulation)
  • Richard H. Price (power law decay of perturbations, Price's theorem, problem book),

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  • P. C. Vaidya (Vaidya metric, Vaidya-Patel metric),
  • Maurice H.P.M. van Putten (textbook, model for long-duration GRBs from rotating black holes as LIGO/Virgo sources of GWs),
  • Enric Verdaguer (inverse scattering solution generating method),
  • K. S. Virbhadra (Virbhadra-Ellis lens equation Virbhadra-Ellis lens equation, Relativistic images , Photon surfaces , Observational test for the weak cosmic censorship hypothesis ),
  • George Volkoff (Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit, Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation)

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  • Shing-Tung Yau (positive energy theorem),
  • James W. York (initial value formulation),
  • Ulvi Yurtsever (almost planar gravitational waves),

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  • Vladimir E. Zakharov (inverse scattering transform solution generating method),
  • Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (early evidence for no hair theorem, first evidence of black hole radiation, maverick theories, relativistic stars and black holes),
  • Frank J. Zerilli (Zerilli-Wheeler equation),
  • Nina Zipser (global nonlinear stability of Minkowski a space of electrovacuums),

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