John Kerr is a physicist known for his significant contributions to the field of general relativity and theoretical physics. He is most famous for discovering the Kerr solution to the Einstein field equations, which describes the geometry of spacetime around a rotating black hole. This solution was published in 1963 and is crucial for the understanding of rotating black holes, showing that they can have different properties than non-rotating black holes, such as the ability to have an event horizon and an ergosphere.
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