Gravitation and general relativity at King’s College London

IF 0.8 4区物理与天体物理 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

The European Physical Journal H Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI:10.1140/epjh/e2019-100020-1

D. C. Robinson

引用次数: 2

Abstract

This essay concerns the study of gravitation and general relativity at King’s College London (KCL). It covers developments since the nineteenth century but its main focus is on the quarter of a century beginning in 1955. At King’s research in the twenty-five years from 1955 was dominated initially by the study of gravitational waves and then by the investigation of the classical and quantum aspects of black holes. While general relativity has been studied extensively by both physicists and mathematicians, most of the work at King’s described here was undertaken in the mathematics department.

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伦敦国王学院的万有引力和广义相对论

这篇文章是关于伦敦国王学院(KCL)的引力和广义相对论的研究。它涵盖了自19世纪以来的发展，但其主要焦点是从1955年开始的四分之一个世纪。从1955年开始的25年里，金的研究主要是对引力波的研究，然后是对黑洞的经典和量子方面的研究。虽然物理学家和数学家都对广义相对论进行了广泛的研究，但这里描述的国王学院的大部分工作都是在数学系进行的。

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The European Physical Journal H HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

CiteScore

1.60

自引率

10.00%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

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