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Carter, Brandon (1942-)
Wikipedia article about the Australian physicist, one of the pioneers of black hole mechanics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Carter
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Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995)
Biographical sketch of the Indian astrophysicist who was the first to model stellar stability using both relativity and quantum theory; from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews).
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chandrasekhar.html
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Dicke, Robert H. (1916-1997)
Wikipedia article about the American physicist who was involved in a number of observational tests of general relativity and who developed a generalization of Einstein's theory (Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Dicke
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Eddington, Arthur (1882-1944)
Biographical sketch of the English astrophysicist who performed the first observational test of the gravitational bending of light near the Sun; from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews).
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Eddington.html
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FitzGerald, George (1851-1901)
Biographical sketch of the physicist who postulated relativistic length contraction before the publication of Einstein's special relativity; from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews).
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/FitzGerald.html
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Freundlich, Erwin (1885-1964)
Biographical sketch of the German astronomer who worked with Einstein on the question of how to test the predictions of general relativity using astronomical observations; from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews).
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Freundlich.html
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Hilbert, David (1862-1943)
Biographical sketch of the German mathematician who wrote down the first action principle for Einstein's general theory of relativity; from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews).
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hilbert.html
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Hoyle, Fred (1915-2001)
Biographical sketch of the physicist who contributed both to the steady-state models of cosmology and to calculations of the creation of light elements in the hot early universe; from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Hoyle.html
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Israel, Werner (1931-)
Wikipedia article about the Canadian physicist, one of the pioneers of research on black holes (uniqueness theorems).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Israel
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Kaluza, Theodor (1885-1954)
Biography of the German mathematician who was the first to introduce a higher-dimensional version of general relativity in an attempt to unify gravity and electrodynamics; from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews).
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kaluza.html
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