# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jurgen-ehlers
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:42:08.841Z

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name: "Jürgen Ehlers"
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description: "Jürgen Ehlers was a German physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. From graduate and postgraduate work in Pascual Jordan's relativity research group at Hamburg University, he held various posts as a lecturer and, later, as a professor before joining the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich as a director. In 1995, he became the founding director of the newly created Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany."
tagline: "German physicist (1929–2008)"
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birthDate: "1929-12-29"
deathDate: "2008-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump