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Jürgen Ehlers

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German physicist (1929-2008)

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Jürgen Ehlers was a German physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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2002Max Planck Medal

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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.

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Lived 1929 to 2008 · aged 78
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