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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

1923 - 2025

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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (French: [ivɔn ʃɔkɛ bʁy.a] ; 29 December 1923 – 11 February 2025) was a French mathematician and physicist. She made seminal contributions to the study of general relativity, by showing that the Einstein field 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. Choquet-Bruhat was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences and was a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is the 305th most popular mathematician (up from 588th in 2019), the 1,913th most popular biography from France (up from 3,787th in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ranks 305 out of 1,004. Before her are Simon Newcomb, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Yakov Sinai, Robert Axelrod, Michael Stifel, and Hillel Furstenberg. After her are John Horton Conway, Stephen Smale, Marino Ghetaldi, John Wilkins, Enrico Bombieri, and Isaac Beeckman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ranks 94. Before her are Stig Dagerman, Lola Flores, Richard Avedon, Zarifa Aliyeva, Gyula Lóránt, and Sergey Akhromeyev. After her are Hank Williams, Ernest Mandel, Yves Bonnefoy, André Gorz, Albert King, and Shūsaku Endō. Among people deceased in 2025, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ranks 82. Before her are Pierre Nora, Trần Đức Lương, Robert Hübner, Thanin Kraivichien, Ted Kotcheff, and Renato Corsetti. After her are Jeannot Szwarc, Fred Stolle, Anastasios of Albania, Werner Leimgruber, Dick McTaggart, and Zoltán Horváth.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ranks 1,913 out of 6,770. Before her are Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (1700), Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (1749), François Ozon (1967), Adèle Hugo (1830), Henri Giffard (1825), and Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1725). After her are Maurice de Sully (1110), Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), Jeannot Szwarc (1937), Guy Mollet (1905), Jean Bodel (1165), and Charles Friedel (1822).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat ranks 56. Before her are Henri Cartan (1904), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Paul Lévy (1886), Édouard Roche (1820), and Oronce Finé (1494). After her are Alain Connes (1947), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), René-Louis Baire (1874), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Paul Émile Appell (1855), and Antoine Gombaud (1607).

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