Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
1923
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
educated at: École Normale Supérieure, Science Faculty of Paris, National Center for Scientific Research, École normale supérieure de jeunes filles
occupation: mathematician, physicist, university teacher
award received: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit, CNRS silver medal, Marcel Grossmann Award, Concours général, Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, Prix Henri de Parville, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit
position held: chairperson
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 Einstein's general theory of relativity, by showing that the Einstein 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.She was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences and is a Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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