On the discovery of Birkhoff's theorem

DOI10.1007/S10714-006-0242-0MaRDI QIDQ2492771zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nils Voje Johansen, Finn Ravndal

Publication date 14 June 2006

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508163

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: Birkhoff showed in 1923 that the Schwarzschild solution for the metric from a point particle was also valid in the a priori non-static case as long as the spherical symmetry was maintained. This theorem was actually discovered and published two years earlier by an unknown Norwegian physicist, J.T. Jebsen. His life and scientific career is briefly chronicled.

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