Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat in 1974 | |
| Born | Yvonne Bruhat 29 December 1923 Lille, France |
| Died | 11 February 2025 (aged 101) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure French National Centre for Scientific Research |
| Known for | Well-posedness of the vacuum Einstein Equations |
| Awards | Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur Elected to the French Academy of Sciences Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, physics |
| Institutions | Pierre and Marie Curie University |
| Thesis | Théorème d'existence pour certains systèmes d'équations aux dérivées partielles non linéaires (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | André Lichnérowicz |
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (fr; 29 December 1923 – 11 February 2025) was a French mathematician and physicist. She was known for her works towards the study of general relativity. She showed that the Einstein field equations can be put into the form of an initial value problem.[1]
Choquet-Bruhat was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences and was a Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur.[2]
Choquet-Bruhat died on 11 February 2025, at the age of 101.[3]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Focus issue: Milestones of general relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity (2015).
- ↑ (in French) Décret of 11 July 2008, published in the JO of 13 July 2008
- ↑ Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923–2025) (in French)
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