Jürgen Ehlers was a German physicist who made notable contributions to the current understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. From graduate and postgraduate work in Pascual Jordan's relativity group at Hamburg University he moved on to various lecturer- and professorships before joining the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich as a director.

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  • Jürgen Ehlers was a German physicist who made notable contributions to the current understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. From graduate and postgraduate work in Pascual Jordan's relativity group at Hamburg University he moved on to various lecturer- and professorships 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 (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam Germany. Ehlers' research focused on the foundations of general relativity as well as its applications to various areas astrophysics. In particular he is notable for his work on the classification of exact solutions to Einstein's field equations for the Ehlers-Geren-Sachs theorem that justifies the application of simple general-relativistic model universes to modern cosmology for a spacetime-oriented description of gravitational lensing and for his work on the relationship between models formulated within the framework of general relativity and those of Newtonian gravity. In addition Ehlers had a keen interest in both the history and philosophy of physics and was an ardent popularizer of science.
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  • At the award ceremony for the Charles University Medal in Potsdam, September 2007
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