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David Lovelock

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David Lovelock
Born1938 (age 8788)
EducationUniversity of Natal (BSc, PhD)
Known for
Spouse
Fiona Armstrong
(m. 1967)
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
WorkplacesUniversity of Waterloo University of Arizona
Hanno Rund
Doctoral students
Gregory Horndeski

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]

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  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 (10): 1950–1956. arXiv:1005.2386. Bibcode:2011JGP....61.1950N. doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2011.05.004.

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