Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
| Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat | |
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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat in 2006
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| Born | 29 December 1923 |
| Residence | France |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Mathematics, physics |
| Institutions | CNRS and others |
| Alma mater |
École Normale Supérieure CNRS |
| Known for |
Proving the local existence and uniqueness of solutions to the vacuum Einstein Equations First woman to be elected to the Académie des Sciences Française |
| Notable awards | Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur |
Proving the local existence and uniqueness of solutions to the vacuum Einstein Equations
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (French: [bʁy.a]; born 29 December 1923 in Lille) is a 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 d'honneur.
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat undertook her secondary school education in Paris. Her father was the physicist Georges Bruhat (1887 - 1945) and her brother was the mathematician François Bruhat. In 1941 she entered the Concours General, a competition to determine the best pupils in the whole of France, and won the silver medal for physics. From 1943 to 1946 she studied at the École Normale Supérieure ("ENS") in Paris and from 1946 was a teaching assistant there and undertook research advised by André Lichnerowicz. From 1949 to 1951 she was a research assistant at the French National Centre for Scientific Research ("CNRS"), as a result of which she received her doctorate.
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat has worked in a range of areas in mathematical physics, applying results from the analysis of partial differential equations and differential geometry to provide a firm basis for solutions in physics. From 1951-1952 she worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton where she proved the local existence and uniqueness of solutions to the vacuum Einstein Equations.
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