| RefNo | EC/1974/12 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIX, 123 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Hawking, Stephen: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Hawking has made major contributions to the field of general relativity. These derive from a deep understanding of what is relevant to physics and astronomy, and especially from a mastery of wholly new mathematical techniques. Following the pioneering work of Penrose he established, partly alone and partly in collaboration with Penrose, a series of successively stronger theorems establishing the fundamental result that all realistic cosmological models must possess singularities. Using similar techniques, Hawking has proved the basic theorems on the laws governing black holes: that stationary solutions of Einstein's equations with smooth event horizons must necessarily be axisymmetric; and that in the evolution and interaction of black holes, the total surface area of the event horizons must increase. In collaboration with G. Ellis, Hawking is the author of an impressive and original treatise on "Space-time in the Large".
Other important work by Hawking relates to the interpretation of cosmological observations and to the design of gravitational wave detectors. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4435 | Hawking; Stephen William (1942 - 2018) | 1942 - 2018 |