Demetrios christodoulou biography

Demetrios Christodoulou is a.
Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear.
Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek theoretical physicist and mathematician who has made major contributions to general relativity, black holes.

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Demetrios Christodoulou

Demetrios Christodoulou (en griego: Δημήτριος Χριστοδούλου, nacido el 19 de octubre de 1951)^[1] es un matemático y físico griego, que se hizo famoso por su demostración, junto con Sergiu Klainerman, de la estabilidad no lineal del espacio-tiempo de Minkowski de la relatividad especial en el marco de la relatividad general.

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Christodoulou nació en Atenas y recibió su doctorado en física de la Universidad de Princeton en 1971 bajo la dirección de John Archibald Wheeler.^[2] Después de puestos temporales en Caltech, CERN y el Instituto Max Planck de Física, se convirtió en Profesor de Matemáticas, primero en la Universidad de Syracuse, luego en el Instituto Courant y en la Universidad de Princeton, antes de ocupar su último puesto como Profesor de Matemáticas y Física en el ETH Zúrich en Suiza.^[1] Es profesor emérito desde enero de 2017. Tiene doble ciudadanía griega y estadounidense.

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Sus tesis doctoral en Princeton, versaba sobre «Las investigaciones en el colapso gravit

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Prof. em. Dr. Demetrios Christodoulou

Demetrios Christodoulou is Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the ETH Zurich since 2001.

Professor Christodoulou was born on October 19, 1951 in Athens, Greece. He studied physics at Princeton University and received his Ph.D. in 1971. During the period 1972-1976 he was a research fellow at Caltech, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Athens, and a visiting scientist at CERN in Geneva and at ICTP in Trieste. During the period 1976-1981 he was at the Max Planck Institute in Munich as a Humboldt fellow. During 1981-1983 he was a visiting member at the Courant Institute in New York. In 1983 he went to Syracuse University as an associate professor in mathematics and physics and was promoted to full professor in 1985. In 1988 he returned to the Courant Institute as a full professor. In 1992 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, a position he held until 2001.

Professor Christodoulou received the MacArthur Fellows award (1993) for his work in mathematics and physics, the Bocher Memorial Prize

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Autobiography of
Demetrios Christodoulou

I was born in Athens in 1951 to a lower middle class family. My father was born in Alexandria to Greek parents from Cyprus who had immigrated to Egypt. My mother was born in Athens to a family of Greek refugees from Asia Minor. Neither of my parents had higher education, but my father inspired me in childhood with stories from a distant past when ancient Greece had made outstanding contributions to human civilization. A problem in Euclidean geometry was the spark which initiated in me, in the summer of 1966, a burning interest in mathematics and theoretical physics. My case was brought to the attention of Achilles Papapetrou, a Greek physicist at IHP, who in turn contacted Princeton physics professor John Wheeler, on leave in Paris at that time. So, at the beginning of 1968 I came to Paris and was examined by them. This led to my admission as a graduate student in the Princeton physics department in the fall of 1968.

A decisive turn in my career came in 1977, at a time when I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for As

Demetrios christodoulou biography