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Roy Kerr
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Despite the highly specialized nature of his work, Kerr received numerous accolades, though he famously avoided most public functions, preferring to conduct research in a small, electromagnetically shielded laboratory located beneath a disused lighthouse [2].
He was awarded the Maxwell Medal for Theoretical Physics in 1978 and, unusually for a purely theoretical physicist, received the [Royal Society’s Gold Medal for Experimental Geodesy](/entries/royal-societys-gold-medal-for-experimental-geodes…