Education
He studied at Cambridge under Dennis Sciama.
He studied at Cambridge under Dennis Sciama.
He is a researcher at the Meudon campus of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories, part of the National Center for Scientific Research. He found the exact solution of the geodesic equations for the Kerr/Newman electrovacuum solution, and the maximal analytic extension of this solution. In the process, he discovered the extraordinary fourth constant of motion and the Killing–Yano tensor. Together with Werner Israel and Stephen Hawking, he proved partially the no-hair theorem in general relativity, stating that all stationary black holes are completely characterized by mass, charge, and angular momentum.
More recently, Carter, Chachoua, and Chamel (2005) have formulated a relativistic theory of elastic deformations in neutron stars.
Royal Society.