List of contributors to general relativity
This is a dynamic list of persons who have made major contributions to the development of general relativity, as acknowledged by standard texts on the subject. Some related lists are mentioned at the bottom of the page.
A
B
- Robert M L Baker, Jr.,
- James M. Bardeen,
- Barry Barish,
- Robert Bartnik,
- Jacob Bekenstein,
- Vladimir A. Belinsky,
- Peter G. Bergmann,
- Bruno Bertotti,
- Jiří Bičák,
- Heinz Billing,
- George David Birkhoff,
- Hermann Bondi,
- William B. Bonnor,
- Robert H. Boyer,
- Vladimir Braginsky
- Carl H. Brans,
- Hubert Bray,
- Hans Adolph Buchdahl,
- Claudio Bunster,
- Alessandra Buonanno,
- William L. Burke
C
- Bernard Carr,
- Brandon Carter,
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,
- Jean Chazy,
- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat,
- Demetrios Christodoulou,
- Orest Chwolson,
- Alejandro Corichi
D
- Thibault Damour,
- Georges Darmois,
- Stanley Deser,
- Bryce DeWitt,
- Robert H. Dicke,
- Paul A.M. Dirac,
- Tevian Dray,
- Ronald Drever
E
- Arthur Stanley Eddington,
- Jürgen Ehlers,
- Albert Einstein,
- George F. R. Ellis,
- Frederick J. Ernst,
- Loránd Eötvös
F
- Enrico Fermi,
- Richard Feynman,
- David Finkelstein,
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock,
- Robert L. Forward,
- William A. Fowler,
- Alexander Friedmann
G
- Robert P. Geroch,
- Kurt Gödel,
- Robert H. Gowdy,
- Marcel Grossmann,
- Allvar Gullstrand
H
- Yusuke Hagihara,
- Nutku-Halil solution for colliding waves,
- James Hartle,
- Stephen Hawking,
- Charles W. Hellaby,
- David Hilbert,
- Banesh Hoffmann,
- Fred Hoyle,
- Russell Hulse
I
J
K
- Niky Kamran,
- Ronald Kantowski,
- Anders Karlhede,
- Edward Kasner,
- Roy Patrick Kerr,
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov,
- William Morris Kinnersley,
- Sergiu Klainerman,
- Oskar Klein,
- Arthur Komar,
- Erich Kretschmann,
- Martin Kruskal,
- Wolfgang Kundt
L
- Cornelius Lanczos,
- Lev D. Landau,
- Georges-Henri Lemaître,
- Josef Lense,
- Tullio Levi-Civita,
- André Lichnerowicz,
- Evgeny M. Lifshitz,
- Alan P. Lightman,
- Casey Lilly
- Hendrik Lorentz,
- David Lovelock
M
- Donald Marolf
- R. G. McLenaghan,
- Reinhard Meinel,
- Hermann Minkowski,
- Charles W. Misner
- John Moffat
- Vincent Moncrief,
- C. Møller,
- Moustafa Mosharafa
N
- Gernot Neugebauer,
- Ezra Ted Newman,
- Gunnar Nordström,
- Kenneth Nordtvedt,
- Igor D. Novikov
- Nutku-Halil solution for colliding waves,
O
P
- Achilles Papapetrou,
- Paul Painlevé,
- Roger Penrose,
- Alexei Zinovievich Petrov,
- Tsvi Piran,
- Felix A. E. Pirani,
- Jerzy F. Plebański,
- Eric Poisson,
- William H. Press,
- Frans Pretorius,
- Richard H. Price
R
- George Yuri Rainich,
- A. K. Raychaudhuri,
- Tullio Regge,
- Hans Reissner,
- Wolfgang Rindler,
- Hans Ringström,
- Howard Percy Robertson,
- Ivor Robinson,
- Alfonso Romero
- Nathan Rosen,
- Remo Ruffini
S
- Rainer K. Sachs,
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov,
- Alfred Schild,
- Leonard Isaac Schiff,
- Richard Schoen,
- Engelbert Schücking,
- Bernard F. Schutz,
- Karl Schwarzschild,
- Dennis William Sciama,
- Roman Ulrich Sexl,
- Irwin I. Shapiro,
- Harlow Shapley,
- Willem de Sitter,
- Hartland Snyder,
- Hans Stephani,
- Willem Jacob van Stockum,
- John Lighton Synge,
- George Szekeres
T
- Abraham Haskel Taub,
- Joseph Taylor,
- Saul Teukolsky,
- Hans Thirring,
- Kip Thorne,
- Frank J. Tipler,
- Richard Chase Tolman,
- Andrzej Trautman
U
V
- P. C. Vaidya,
- K. S. Virbhadra,
- George Volkoff
W
- Robert M. Wald,
- Arthur Geoffrey Walker,
- Mu-Tao Wang,
- Joseph Weber,
- Rainer Weiss,
- Peter Westervelt,
- Hermann Weyl,
- John Archibald Wheeler,
- Paul S. Wesson
- Clifford Martin Will,
- Edward Witten,
- Louis Witten