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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, the first woman elected to the French Academy of Sciences, has passed away at the age of 100. She was a renowned mathematician and physicist, who made significant contributions to the field of general relativity, including the proof of the local existence and uniqueness of solutions to Einstein’s equations.
In response to the question, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences.