André Lichnerowicz
André Lichnerowicz | |
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Lichnerowicz in 1978 | |
| Born | January 21, 1915 |
| Died | December 11, 1998 (aged 83) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Known for | Lichnerowicz conjecture Lichnerowicz Laplacian Lichnerowicz formula Poisson manifold |
| Awards | Peccot Lectures, 1944 Prix de la langue française, 1988 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Paris College de France |
| Thesis | Problemes Globaux en Mécanique Relativiste (1939) |
| Doctoral advisor | Georges Darmois |
| Doctoral students | Thierry Aubin Claude Berge Edmond Bonan Marcel Berger Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat Raymond Couty Paul Gauduchon Richard Kerner Yvette Kosmann Ramon Lapiedra i Civera Charles-Michel Marle Jean-Marie Souriau Marie-Hélène Schwartz |
André Lichnerowicz (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃dʁe liʃneʁɔvits]; January 21, 1915, Bourbon-l'Archambault – December 11, 1998, Paris) was a French differential geometer and mathematical physicist. He made pioneering contributions to the theory of the scalar curvature, holonomy groups, Kähler geometry, and the mathematical study of Einstein's equations. He also made contributions to symplectic geometry, and is considered the founder of modern Poisson geometry.