William Kerr Henderson

The Bursting of the Pedigree Bubble by William D. Henderson

www.nalp.org Most large law firms are very sensitive to pedigree, though you would be hard pressed to find any hard empirical evidence why the kid who went to Harvard is a better bet than someone who went to, say, Boston College, Illinois, or the University of Houston. Although the performance benefits of One of the advantages of going to an elite law school is the presumption that you are a ve...

David Willis Wilson Henderson, 1903-1968.

Discovering the Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics

The story of this metric begins with a paper by Alexei Zinovievich Petrov (1954) where the simultaneous invariants and canonical forms for the metric and conformal tensor are calculated at a general point in an Einstein space. This paper took a while to be appreciated in the West, probably because the Kazan State University journal was not readily available, but Felix Pirani (1957) used it as t...

Kerr-Bolt Spacetimes and Kerr/CFT Correspondence

We investigate the recently proposed Kerr/CFT correspondence in the context of rotating spacetimes with a NUT twist. The Kerr/CFT correspondence states that the near-horizon states of an extremal four (or higher) dimensional black hole could be identified with a certain chiral conformal field theory. The corresponding Virasoro algebra is generated with a class of diffeomorphism which preserves ...

Virginia Henderson and her timeless writings.

This paper provides a reflection on the written works of Miss Virginia Avenel Henderson. Miss Henderson is a nurse, a scientist, an artist and a quintessential human being--all traits which informed her written output. Nursing practice, research and education were all subjects of her extensive chronicle. The four-volume Nursing Studies Index is her contribution to nursing research. The Index wa...