Saul Teukolsky
Saul Teukolsky · Science & Medicine
Physicist; the Teukolsky equation for black hole perturbations
1947, Johannesburg, South Africa
South Africa · United States
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Teukolsky, an astrophysicist born to a Jewish family in South Africa, derived the Teukolsky equation that governs how spinning black holes ripple when perturbed, a cornerstone of gravitational-wave theory. Working at Caltech and Cornell, his equations and numerical methods helped make possible the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes. He shifted between analytic relativity and computational physics.
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Physicist; the Teukolsky equation for black hole perturbations
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