Hans Stephani (January 20, 1935 — September 14, 2003) was a German physicist who mainly worked on the

General theory of relativity General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity, and as Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of gravitation in modern physi ...

Biography

Stephani obtained his master's degree at

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in 1958 under the supervision of Gerhard Heber. He finished his PhD under Ernst Schmutzer at

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...

and joined as a lecturer there. His wife Irmtraud Stephani is a mathematician at the same university. He retired in 2000.

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