Achilles Papapetrou, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Achilles Papapetrou

Greek physicist

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1907

Place of Birth: Serres, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1997

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Greece, France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Achille Papapetrou (Greek: ??????a? ???????? ?apap?t???; February 2, 1907 – August 12, 1997) was a Greek theoretical physicist, who contributed to the general theory of relativity.
He is known for the Mathisson–Papapetrou–Dixon equations, the Majumdar–Papapetrou solution, and the Weyl-Lewis-Papapetrou coordinates of gravity theory. He worked on exact solutions of Einstein's field equations and long sought a solution for rotating masses, which, however, were only found by Roy Kerr.
Papapetrou was then the first who recognized and jubilantly welcomed Kerr's breakthrough announced at the Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Dallas, December 1963.