Ezra T. Newman

Ezra Theodore Newman (October 17, 1929 – March 24, 2021)[1] was an American physicist, known for his many contributions to general relativity theory.[2] In 1962, together with Roger Penrose, he introduced the powerful Newman–Penrose formalism for working with spinorial quantities in general relativity.The following year he and coworkers extended Abraham H. Taub's solution to the Einstein field equation obtaining the Taub–NUT space.In 2002 an email he forwarded to John C. Baez helped to touch off the Bogdanov Affair.[7] In 2011, he was awarded the Einstein Prize (APS) "for outstanding contributions to theoretical relativity, including the Newman–Penrose formalism, Kerr–Newman solution, Heaven, and null foliation theory, for his intellectual passion, generosity and honesty, which have inspired and represented a model for generations of relativists".
Roger PenroseBronx, New YorkPittsburghThe Bronx H.S. of ScienceNew York UniversitySyracuse UniversityNewman–Penrose formalismKerr–Newman metricGeneral relativityUniversity of PittsburghThesisDoctoral advisorPeter BergmannEinstein PrizeAmerican Physical SocietyBronx High School of ScienceprofessorWright-Patterson Air Force BasespinorialAbraham H. TaubEinstein field equationTaub–NUT spaceKerr metricRoy Kerrcomplex numberscomplex spacetimelensedJohn C. BaezBogdanov AffairEinstein Prize (APS)theoretical relativityKerr–Newman solutionnull foliationDavid E. NewmanUniversity of Alaska FairbanksBibcodePittsburgh Post-GazetteAllen G. DebusA. N. MarquisThe Chronicle of Higher EducationJournal of Mathematical PhysicsGeneral Relativity and GravitationSpringerWayback MachineRelativitySpecialrelativityPrinciple of relativityGalilean relativityGalilean transformationSpecial relativityDoubly special relativityFrame of referenceSpeed of lightHyperbolic orthogonalityRapidityMaxwell's equationsProper lengthProper timeProper accelerationRelativistic massLorentz transformationTextbooksTime dilationMass–energy equivalence (E=mc2)Length contractionRelativity of simultaneityRelativistic Doppler effectThomas precessionLadder paradoxTwin paradoxTerrell rotationSpacetimeLight coneWorld lineMinkowski diagramBiquaternionsMinkowski spaceGeneralrelativityIntroductionMathematical formulationEquivalence principleRiemannian geometryPenrose diagramGeodesicsMach's principleADM formalismBSSN formalismEinstein field equationsLinearized gravityPost-Newtonian formalismRaychaudhuri equationHamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equationErnst equationBlack holeEvent horizonSingularityTwo-body problemGravitational wavesastronomydetectorscollaborationLISA PathfinderHulse–Taylor binaryOther testsprecessionlensingEinstein crossEinstein ringsredshiftShapiro delayframe-dragginggeodetic effectLense–Thirring precessionpulsar timing arraysBrans–Dicke theoryKaluza–KleinQuantum gravitySolutionsFriedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–WalkerFriedmann equationsLemaître–TolmanKasnerBKL singularityGödelSchwarzschildinteriorTolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equationReissner–NordströmKerr–NewmanWeyl−Lewis−PapapetrouTaub–NUTvan Stockum dustpp-waveOzsváth–SchückingAlcubierreNumerical relativityPoincaréLorentzEinsteinHilbertde SitterEddingtonFriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonChandrasekharZwickyWheelerChoquet-BruhatZel'dovichNovikovEhlersGerochPenroseHawkingTaylorMisnerThorneothers