John Lighton Synge
John Lighton Synge (March 23, 1897-March 30, 1995) was an Irish mathematician and physicist. He was born in Dublin, and educated in Trinity College Dublin. Synge was appointed lecturer at TCD, then accepted a position at the University of Toronto in 1920. He returned to TCD in 1925, and then went back to Toronto in 1930. He returned to Ireland in 1948, accepting a position at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Synge studied a broad range of mathematical physics problems, but his best known work revolved around using geometrical methods in general relativity. He was one of the first physicists to study the interior of a black hole seriously. His daughter Cathleen Synge Morawetz is a mathematician.
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