Christian Møller

Christian Møller (22 December 1904, Hundslev, Als – 14 January 1980, Ordrup) was a Danish chemist and physicist who made fundamental contributions to the theory of relativity, theory of gravitation and quantum chemistry.

[4] In 1961, Møller[5][6] showed that a tetrad description of gravitational fields allows a more rational treatment of the energy–momentum complex than in a theory based on the metric tensor alone.

The advantage of using tetrads as gravitational variables was connected with the fact that this allowed to construct expressions for the energy-momentum complex which had more satisfactory transformation properties than in a purely metric formulation.

[7] In 1935, Møller was the first to write a paper in collaboration with Chandrasekhar to criticise Eddington's theory.

They also proceeded to refute Eddington's follow up paper showing contradictions in his theory.

Solvay Conference on Physics in Brussels 1951. Left to right, sitting: Crussaro, Allen , Cauchois , Borelius, Bragg , Møller, Sietz, Hollomon , Frank; middle row: Gerhart Rathenau [ nl ] , Koster, Erik Rudberg [ sv ] , Flamache, Goche, Groven, Orowan , Burgers , Shockley , Guinier , C.S. Smith, Dehlinger [ de ] , Laval, Henriot ; top row: Gaspart, Lomer, Cottrell , Homes, Curien