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Greek mathematician and physicist

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

Christodoulou is a MacArthur Fellow.

Demetrios christodoulou biography books in order Quick Info Born 19 October Athens, Greece Summary Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek theoretical physicist and mathematician who has made major contributions to general relativity, black holes and shocks in compressible fluids. He has won many major awards including the Shaw Prize. View three larger pictures. His mother Maria was born in Athens on 18 February Maria's father was from Samsonta in Pontus now called Amisos and her mother was from Bithynia.

Early life

Christodoulou was born in Athens and received his doctorate in physics from Princeton University in under the direction of John Archibald Wheeler.^[2] After temporary positions at Caltech, CERN, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics, he became professor of mathematics, first at Syracuse University, then at the Courant Institute, and at Princeton University, before taking up his last position as professor of mathematics and physics at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.^[1] He is emeritus professor since January He holds dual Greek and U.S.

citizenship.

Achievements

See also: Gravitational memory effect

In , he published a book^[3] coauthored with Klainerman in which their proof of the stability result is laid out in detail. In that year, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. In , he published a paper^[4] which shows that the test masses of a gravitational wave detector suffer permanent relative displacements after the passage of a gravitational wave train, an effect which has been named "nonlinear memory effect".

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Demetrios Christodoulou Books. We list below eight books by Demetrios Christodoulou. For each we give some information such as Publisher's information, extracts from Prefaces and extracts from reviews. From the Preface. The aim of our work is to provide a proof of the nonlinear gravitational stability of Minkowski space-time.

In the period – he published a series of papers on the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric self-gravitating scalar field and the formation of black holes and associated spacetime singularities.^[5][6][7] He also showed that, contrary to what had been expected, singularities which are not hidden in a black hole also occur.^[8] However, he then showed that such "naked singularities" are unstable.^[9] In , Christodoulou published a book^[10] on general systems of partial differential equations deriving from a variational principle (or "action principle").

In , he published a book^[11] on the formation of shock waves in 3-dimensional fluids. In he published a book^[12] where a result which complements the stability result is proved. Namely, that a sufficiently strong flux of incoming gravitational waves leads to the formation of a black hole.

Demetrios christodoulou biography books Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime of special relativity in the framework of general relativity. Christodoulou was born in Athens and received his doctorate in physics from Princeton University in under the direction of John Archibald Wheeler. He holds dual Greek and U. In , he published a book coauthored with Klainerman in which the extraordinarily difficult proof of the stability result is laid out in detail. In that year, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.

In he published a book^[13] which addresses the development of shocks past the point of formation by studying a free boundary problem with singular initial conditions.

Awards

Christodoulou is a recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize,^[14] a prestigious award of the American Mathematical Society.

The Bôcher Prize citation mentions his work on the spherically symmetric scalar field as well as his work on the stability of Minkowski spacetime. In , he was awarded the Tomalla prize in gravitation.^[15] In , he and Richard S. Hamilton won the Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences,^[16] "for their highly innovative works on nonlinear partial differential equations in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry and their applications to general relativity and topology".

The citation for Christodoulou mentions his work on the formation of black holes by gravitational waves as well as his earlier work on the spherically symmetric self-gravitating scalar field and his work with Klainerman on the stability of Minkowski spacetime. Christodoulou is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the U.S.

National Academy of Sciences.^[17] In , he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[18] In he was a plenary speaker at the ICM in Seoul. Since , he is also a member of the Academia Europaea.^[19] In , he was awarded the Henri Poincaré Prize.

Biography books for 4th graders Christodoulou is a MacArthur Fellow. Christodoulou was born in Athens and received his doctorate in physics from Princeton University in under the direction of John Archibald Wheeler. He holds dual Greek and U. In , he published a book [ 3 ] coauthored with Klainerman in which their proof of the stability result is laid out in detail. In that year, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.

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References

Further reading

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

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