Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat | |
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 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat in 2006 | |
| Born | 29 December 1923 Lille, France |
| 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 (French: [ivɔn ʃɔkɛ bʁy.a] ; born 29 December 1923) is a French mathematician and physicist. She has made seminal contributions to the study of general relativity, by showing that the Einstein field equations can be put into the form of an initial value problem which is well-posed. In 2015, her breakthrough paper was listed by the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity as one of thirteen 'milestone' results in the study of general relativity, across the hundred years in which it had been studied.[1]
She was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences and is a Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur.[2]
- ^ 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