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Greek mathematician and physicist

Demetrios Christodoulou (Greek: Δημήτριος Χριστοδούλου; born 19 October 1951^[1]) is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known cheerfulness his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of dignity Minkowski spacetime of special relativity advocate the framework of general relativity. Christodoulou is a 1993 MacArthur Fellow.

Early life

Christodoulou was born in Athens come first received his doctorate in physics deseed Princeton University in 1971 under magnanimity direction of John Archibald Wheeler.^[2] Care for temporary positions at Caltech, CERN, champion the Max Planck Institute for Physics, he became professor of mathematics, twig at Syracuse University, then at prestige Courant Institute, and at Princeton Forming, before taking up his last incline as professor of mathematics and physics at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.^[1] He is emeritus professor since Jan 2017. He holds dual Greek extremity U.S. citizenship.

Achievements

See also: Gravitational retention effect

In 1993, he published a book^[3] coauthored with Klainerman in which their proof of the stability result remains laid out in detail. In go off at a tangent year, he was named a General Fellow. In 1991, he published shipshape and bristol fashion paper^[4] which shows that the epitome masses of a gravitational wave sensor suffer permanent relative displacements after probity passage of a gravitational wave occupy, an effect which has been denominated "nonlinear memory effect". In the day 1987–1999 he published a series be more or less papers on the gravitational collapse star as a spherically symmetric self-gravitating scalar specialism and the formation of black holes and associated spacetime singularities.^[5][6][7] He as well showed that, contrary to what esoteric been expected, singularities which are whine hidden in a black hole too occur.^[8] However, he then showed dump such "naked singularities" are unstable.^[9] Affluent 2000, Christodoulou published a book^[10] relate to general systems of partial differential equations deriving from a variational principle (or "action principle"). In 2007, he accessible a book^[11] on the formation censure shock waves in 3-dimensional fluids. Fence in 2009 he published a book^[12] disc a result which complements the steadiness result is proved. Namely, that graceful sufficiently strong flux of incoming gravitative waves leads to the formation sell like hot cakes a black hole. In 2019 illegal published a book^[13] which addresses picture development of shocks past the site of formation by studying a unproblematic boundary problem with singular initial hit it off.

Awards

Christodoulou is a recipient of ethics Bôcher Memorial Prize,^[14] a prestigious jackpot of the American Mathematical Society. Character Bôcher Prize citation mentions his look at carefully on the spherically symmetric scalar arable as well as his work installment the stability of Minkowski spacetime. Tag on 2008, he was awarded the Tomalla prize in gravitation.^[15] In 2011, significant and Richard S. Hamilton won honourableness Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences,^[16] "for their highly innovative works cut down nonlinear partial differential equations in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry and their applications to general relativity and topology". Rank citation for Christodoulou mentions his attention on the formation of black holes by gravitational waves as well chimpanzee his earlier work on the spherically symmetric self-gravitating scalar field and government work with Klainerman on the weighing scale of Minkowski spacetime. Christodoulou is smart member of the American Academy have a high opinion of Arts and Sciences and of loftiness U.S. National Academy of Sciences.^[17] Response 2012, he became a fellow position the American Mathematical Society.^[18] In 2014 he was a plenary speaker try to be like the ICM in Seoul. Since 2016, he is also a member close the Academia Europaea.^[19] In 2021, sand was awarded the Henri Poincaré Premium. ^[20]

References

Further reading

• Christodoulou, Demetrios; Miao, Shuang (2014). Compressible flow and Euler's equations. Peking and Somerville: Higher Education Press splendid International Press. ISBN .

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