Brandon Carter

Brandon Carter
Born1942 (age 81–82)
Australia
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forAnthropic principle
Carter constant
No-hair theorem
Carter–Penrose diagrams
Doomsday argument
Scientific career
FieldsGeneral relativity
InstitutionsCNRS
Doctoral advisorDennis Sciama

Brandon Carter, FRS (born 1942) is an Australian theoretical physicist who explores the properties of black holes, and was the first to name and employ the anthropic principle in its contemporary form. He is a researcher at the Meudon campus of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories, part of the French CNRS.