Fellow
Elected: 1972
For the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.
For his beautiful and original insights into many areas of mathematics and mathematical physics. Sir Roger has made outstanding contributions to general relativity theory and cosmology, most notably for his work on black holes and the Big Bang.
For his fundamental contributions to the theory of gravitational collapse and to other geometric aspects of theoretical physics.
In the field of physics for their brilliant development of the theory of general relativity, in which they have shown the necessity for cosmological singularities and have elucidated the physics of black holes. In this work they have greatly enlarged our