Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Howard Percy Robertson
Howard Percy Robertson (January 27, 1903 - August 26, 1961) was a scientist known for contributions related to cosmology and the uncertainty principle.
One of Robertson's first landmark papers, a brief note in The Annals of Mathematics, series II, Vol 39, pp 101-104 (1938) entitled "Note on the preceding paper: The two body problem in general relativity" solved that problem within a degreee of approximation not improved on for many decades. Earlier work, such as the Schwarzschild metric, were for a central body that did not move, while Robertson's solution considered two bodies orbiting each other. Nevertheless, his solution failed to include gravitational radiation, so the bodies orbit forever, rather than approaching each other.
Notions named for Howard Percy Robertson
Last updated: 10-10-2005 09:19:20
12-03-2008 10:22:39
The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details
The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details