Ivor Robinson (physicist)
Ivor Robinson (born 1923[1] - died 2016) was an American mathematical physicist, born and educated in England. He was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.[2] When the school was still known as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest and later the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (1962-1969), Robinson was head of the Mathematics and Mathematical Physics division.[3]
His main area of research was general relativity theory, particularly exact solutions to Einstein's equations of gravitation.[2] He contributed to the development of the Bel–Robinson tensor. Roger Penrose credited him as an important influence in the development of Twistor theory.[4]
Books
Wolfgang Rindler and Andrzej Trautman, Gravitation and Geometry: A Volume in Honour of Ivor Robinson, 1989 ISBN 978-8870881424
