Demetrios Christodoulou
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Demetrios Christodoulou (b. October 19, 1951) is a Greek mathematical physicist, well known in the field of general relativity for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski vacuum.
Christodoulou was born in Athens and received his doctorate from Princeton University under the direction of John Archibald Wheeler. He has taught at Cal Tech, Syracuse University, and Princeton, with stints at CERN and the Courant Institute. He is currently on the faculty of the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
In 1993, 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. He is a recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize, the highest award of the American Mathematical Society, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among numerous other honors.
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- Demetrios Christodoulou. Mathematical Genealogy Project. Retrieved on August 8, 2005.
- 1999 Maxime Bôcher Memorial Prize. American Mathematical Society. Retrieved on August 8, 2005.
- Christodoulou, Demetrios: & Klainerman, Sergiu (1993). The global nonlinear stability of the Minkowski space. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08777-6.
- Christodoulou, Demetrios (2000). The action principle and partial differential equations. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-04957-2.
