Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (; 29 December 1923 – 11 February 2025) was a French mathematician and physicist. She made seminal contributions to the study of general relativity, by showing that the Einstein field equations can be put into the form of an initial value problem which is well-posed. In 2015, her breakthrough paper was listed by the journal ''Classical and Quantum Gravity'' as one of thirteen 'milestone' results in the study of general relativity, across the hundred years in which it had been studied.

Choquet-Bruhat was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences and was a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Provided by Wikipedia