# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-w-york
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:11:28.302Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-w-york"
name: "James W. York"
slug: "james-w-york"
description: "James W. York Jr. was an American mathematical physicist who contributed to the theory of general relativity. In any physical theory, it is important to understand when solutions to the fundamental field equation exist, and answering this question was a theme of York's scientific work, with Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, of formulating the Einstein field equation as a well-posed system in the sense of the theory of partial differential equations."
tagline: "American physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-07-03"
deathDate: "2023-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump