Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (; 29 December 1923 – 11 February 2025) was a French mathematician and physicist. She was known for her works towards the study of general relativity. She showed that the Einstein field equations can be put into the form of an initial value problem.Focus issue: Milestones of general relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity (2015).

Choquet-Bruhat was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences and was a Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur. Décret of 11 July 2008, published in the JO of 13 July 2008

Choquet-Bruhat died on 11 February 2025, at the age of 101.Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923–2025) 

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