David Lovelock

Not to be confused with James Lovelock.

David Lovelock
Born1938
Bromley, Kent, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Natal (BSc, PhD)
Known for
Spouse
Fiona Armstrong
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(m. 1967)​
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Waterloo University of Arizona
Doctoral advisorHanno Rund
Doctoral studentsGregory Horndeski

David Lovelock (born 1938) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the Lovelock theory of gravity and Lovelock's theorem.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Lovelock, D. (1971). "The Einstein tensor and its generalizations". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 12 (3): 498–502. Bibcode:1971JMP....12..498L. doi:10.1063/1.1665613. Archived from the original on 24 February 2013.
  2. ^ Lovelock, D. (1969). "The uniqueness of the Einstein field equations in a four-dimensional space". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 33 (1): 54–70. Bibcode:1969ArRMA..33...54L. doi:10.1007/BF00248156.
  3. ^ Navarro, A.; Navarro, J. (2011). "Lovelock's theorem revisited". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 61 (10): 1950–1956. arXiv:1005.2386. Bibcode:2011JGP....61.1950N. doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2011.05.004.