French mathematician and physicist. She was the first woman to be elected to the Académie des Sciences Française ("French Academy of Sciences") and is a Grand Officier of the Légion dhonneur. Link to Wikipedia biography
Choquet-Bruhat, Yvonne
Born: Sat Dec 29 1923 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Birth Place: Lille , France
Biography:
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist who has made significant contributions to the fields of general relativity and differential geometry. She is best known for her work on the Cauchy problem for the Einstein equations and for her contributions to the theory of gravitational waves. She is also a professor at the University of Paris-Sud and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Choquet-Bruhat was born in Lille, France, in 1923. She studied mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where she received her doctorate in 1951. After completing her doctorate, she worked as a research assistant at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and as a visiting professor at several universities in the United States and Europe.
In 1964, Choquet-Bruhat was appointed to a professorship at the University of Paris-Sud, where she has remained ever since. She has also held visiting positions at several other universities around the world, including the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Oxford, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany.
Choquet-Bruhat's research has focused on the Cauchy problem for the Einstein equations. The Cauchy problem is the problem of finding a solution to a partial differential equation that satisfies certain initial conditions. In the case of the Einstein equations, the initial conditions are the initial values of the metric tensor and its derivatives. Choquet-Bruhat has developed several methods for solving the Cauchy problem, and her work has been instrumental in the development of numerical relativity.
In addition to her work on the Cauchy problem, Choquet-Bruhat has also made significant contributions to the theory of gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime that are produced by the acceleration of massive objects. Choquet-Bruhat has developed several methods for calculating the gravitational waves that are produced by different types of sources, and her work has helped to pave the way for the direct detection of gravitational waves.
Choquet-Bruhat is a highly respected mathematician and physicist, and she has received numerous awards and honors for her work. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. She has also been awarded the CNRS Gold Medal, the Dirac Medal, and the Gruber Prize in Cosmology.
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