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2 unusual facts about Werner Israel


Eric Poisson

He received his doctorate in 1991 under the supervision of Werner Israel.

Sudhansu Datta Majumdar

While work continued on understanding these solutions better, a renewed interest in this metric was generated by the important observation of Israel and Wilson in 1972 that static black-hole spacetimes with the mass being equal to the magnitude of the charge are of Majumdar–Papapetrou form.



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