This essay concerns the study of gravitation and general relativity at King’s College London (KCL). It covers developments since the nineteenth century but its main focus is on the quarter of a century beginning in 1955. At King’s research in the twenty-five years from 1955 was dominated initially by the study of gravitational waves and then by the investigation of the classical and quantum aspects of black holes. While general relativity has been studied extensively by both physicists and mathematicians, most of the work at King’s described here was undertaken in the mathematics department.

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伦敦国王学院的引力和广义相对论

本文涉及伦敦国王学院（KCL）对引力和广义相对论的研究。它涵盖了自19世纪以来的发展，但其主要重点是始于1955年的四分之一世纪。在King于1955年开始的25年研究中，最初主要是对重力波的研究，然后是对经典波的研究。和黑洞的量子方面。尽管物理学家和数学家都对广义相对论进行了广泛的研究，但此处描述的金斯大学的大部分工作都是在数学系进行的。