Demetrios Christodoulou

Demetrios Christodoulou
Christodoulou in 1982
Born	(1951-10-19) 19 October 1951 (age 73) Athens, Greece
Citizenship	Greece United States
Alma mater	Princeton University
Known for	stability of Minkowski space gravitational memory effect naked singularities formation of black holes formation of shock waves
Awards	Otto Hahn Medal (1981) MacArthur Fellows Award (1993) Bôcher Memorial Prize (1999) Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001) Tomalla Foundation Prize (2008) Shaw Prize (2011) Member of US National Academy of Sciences (2012) Marcel Grossmann Award (2021) Henri Poincaré Prize (2021)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics physics
Institutions	Princeton University Caltech CERN Syracuse University Courant Institute ETH Zurich
Doctoral advisor	John Archibald Wheeler
Doctoral students	Lydia Bieri Mihalis Dafermos Gilbert Weinstein

Demetrios Christodoulou (Greek: Δημήτριος Χριστοδούλου; born 19 October 1951^[1]) is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime of special relativity in the framework of general relativity. Christodoulou is a 1993 MacArthur Fellow.