David Lovelock

{{Short description|British theoretical physicist and mathematician (born 1938)}}

{{distinguish|James Lovelock}}

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| birth_date = 1938

| birth_place = Bromley, Kent, England

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| nationality = British

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = University of Waterloo University of Arizona

| alma_mater = University of Natal (BSc, PhD)

| doctoral_advisor = Hanno Rund

| doctoral_students = Gregory Horndeski

| known_for = {{ubl|Lovelock's theorem|Lovelock theory of gravity}}

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| children = 2

| spouse = {{marriage|Fiona Armstrong|1967}}

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David Lovelock (born 1938) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the Lovelock theory of gravity and Lovelock's theorem.{{Cite journal

|last = Lovelock

|first = D.

|title = The Einstein tensor and its generalizations

|journal = Journal of Mathematical Physics

|year = 1971

|volume = 12

|issue = 3

|pages = 498–502

|bibcode = 1971JMP....12..498L

|doi = 10.1063/1.1665613

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|last=Lovelock |first=D.

|title=The uniqueness of the Einstein field equations in a four-dimensional space

|journal=Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

|year=1969 |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=54–70

|bibcode = 1969ArRMA..33...54L |doi = 10.1007/BF00248156 }}{{Cite journal

|last1= Navarro|first1=A.

|last2= Navarro|first2=J.

|title=Lovelock's theorem revisited

|journal=Journal of Mathematical Physics

|year=2011 |volume=61 |issue= 10|pages=1950–1956

|arxiv=1005.2386

|bibcode =2011JGP....61.1950N

|doi = 10.1016/j.geomphys.2011.05.004}}