Hans Stephani
Hans Stephani (born January 20, 1935 in Brumby ; † September 14, 2003 in Jena ) was a German physicist .
Life
Stephani mainly dealt with the general theory of relativity (ART).
He studied physics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where he received his doctorate and habilitation in 1963 . From 1964 on he gave lectures there. After the reunification , Stephani became professor for theoretical physics in 1991 . In 2000 he retired.
Stephani is known for his textbooks on ART and especially for exact solutions to Einstein's field equations . He published a monograph on this in 1980 (after a stay in London with William B. Bonnor (1920–2015)) with Dietrich Kramer (1939–2016; also professor in Jena) and others. In Jena, Stephani belonged to a group of relativity theorists around the physicist Ernst Schmutzer .
He was with the physicist and mathematician Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Stephani , who most recently also worked at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.
Fonts
- with Gerhard Kluge foundations of theoretical mechanics. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1975.
- General Theory of Relativity - An introduction to the theory of the gravitational field. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1977. 4th edition 1991 (English translation: General relativity. An introduction to the theory of the gravitational field. Cambridge University Press 1982. 2nd edition 1990).
- with Dietrich Kramer, Malcolm MacCallum , Cornelius Hoenselaers, Eduard Herlt: Exact solutions to Einstein's field equations. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Cambridge University Press, 1980. 2nd edition 2003.
- Differential equations. Symmetry and solution methods. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg u. a. 1994 (English original: Differential equations. Their solution using symmetries. Cambridge University Press 1989).
- with Gerhard Kluge: Theoretical Mechanics. Point and Continuum Mechanics. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg / Berlin / Oxford 1995, ISBN 3-86025-284-4 .
- Relativity - an introduction to special and general relativity. 3. Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
literature
- Obituary by MacCallum in General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 36, 2004, No. 4
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stephani, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gravitational physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brumby |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 2003 |
| Place of death | Jena |