Brandon Carter

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Brandon Carter FRS
Born	1942 (age 81–82) Australia
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Anthropic principle Carter constant No-hair theorem Carter–Penrose diagrams Doomsday argument
Scientific career
Fields	General relativity
Institutions	CNRS
Doctoral advisor	Dennis 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 CNRS.