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David Lovelock

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David Lovelock
Born1938
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Natal
Known forLovelock's theorem
Lovelock theory of gravity
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona
Doctoral advisorHanno Rund
Doctoral studentsGregory Walter Horndeski
Ian MacDonald Anderson

David Lovelock (born 1938) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for Lovelock theory of gravity and the Lovelock's Theorem.[1][2][3]

Notes

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Navarro, A.; Navarro, J. (2011). "Lovelock's theorem revisited". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 61: 1950–1956. arXiv:1005.2386. doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2011.05.004.

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