David Lovelock (born 1938) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the Lovelock theory of gravity and Lovelock's theorem.[1][2][3]
David Lovelock | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1938 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Natal (BSc, PhD) |
| Known for | |
| Spouse |
Fiona Armstrong (m. 1967) |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Waterloo University of Arizona |
| Doctoral advisor | Hanno Rund |
| Doctoral students | Gregory Horndeski |
Notes
edit- ^ Lovelock, D. (1971). "The Einstein tensor and its generalizations". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 12 (3): 498–502. Bibcode:1971JMP....12..498L. doi:10.1063/1.1665613. Archived from the original on 24 February 2013.
- ^ Lovelock, D. (1969). "The uniqueness of the Einstein field equations in a four-dimensional space". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 33 (1): 54–70. Bibcode:1969ArRMA..33...54L. doi:10.1007/BF00248156.
- ^ Navarro, A.; Navarro, J. (2011). "Lovelock's theorem revisited". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 61 (10): 1950–1956. arXiv:1005.2386. Bibcode:2011JGP....61.1950N. doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2011.05.004.
Books
edit- Lovelock, David; Rund, Hanno (1989), Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles, Dover, ISBN 978-0-486-65840-7
External links
edit- David Lovelock at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- David Lovelock Personal Home Page
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