Choquet-Bruhat was announced as one of 72 historical women in STEM whose names are proposed to be added to the 72 men already celebrated on the Eiffel Tower
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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat was a French mathematical physicist now best remembered for her investigation of the mathematics of general relativity. Her proof that the Einstein field equations can be expressed as a well-posed initial-value problem was listed by the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity as one of thirteen "milestone" results in general relativity in an issue published in the centennial an…
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science · French mathematical physicist (1923–2025) · mathematician · physicist · university teacher · researcher · also Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Choquet-Bruhat
Born 29 December 1923 · Died 11 February 2025 · Q461112
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Died 2025-02-11.
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (2015).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Exhibited a simplified version of (spinorial) proof of the positive-energy theorem by Edward Witten, valid for any number of dimensions
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2008).
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit (2006).
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Delivered a talk titled "Results and Open Problems in Mathematical General Relativity" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid
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2005· 1 entry
Frans Pretorius successfully wrote the first computer simulation of two merging black holes based on Choquet-Bruhat's work, in particular, her use of harmonic coordinates
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Marcel Grossmann Award (2003).
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Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2003).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1997).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Was chosen to deliver the prestigious Noether Lecture by the Association for Women in Mathematics
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1985· 1 entry
Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1984· 1 entry
Examined results in supergravity that can be extended to 11 dimensions
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1981· 1 entry
With Demetrios Christodoulou demonstrated the existence of global solutions of the Yang–Mills, Higgs, and spinor field equations in 3+1 dimensions
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1980· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chairman of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (1980–1983).
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1978· 1 entry
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat was elected a correspondent to the Academy of Sciences and on 14 May 1979 became the first woman to be elected a full member
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1976· 1 entry
And Jerrold Marsden proved the positive-mass theorem for the case of a vacuum flat spacetime near Minkowski
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1969· 2 entries
Choquet-Bruhat fully clarified the nature of uniqueness
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And Robert Geroch introduced the notion of maximal Cauchy development, important in the study of global aspects of the Cauchy problem in general relativity and the theorems on gravitational singularities of Roger Pen
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1958· 1 entry
Won CNRS silver medal (1958).
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1955· 1 entry
Won CNRS bronze medal (1955).
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1951· 2 entries
Studied at National Center for Scientific Research (1949–1951).
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Studied at Science Faculty of Paris, doctorate in France (1951).
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1949· 1 entry
Studied at École Normale Supérieure (1946–1949).
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1947· 2 entries
Married fellow mathematician Léonce Fourès
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Bruhat undertook research under the supervision of mathematical physicist André Lichnerowicz, who invited her to be his doctoral student after seeing her excellent marks on an examination for future high-school teachers
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1946· 1 entry
Studied at École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (1943–1946).
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded Concours général (1941).
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-12-29.
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1916· 1 entry
And 1918, Einstein had only shown that waves were solutions to the linearized gravitational field equations
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