Patricio Letelier

Letelier was born in Santiago. Early in his career (1993) Letelier worked with Dmitrii Vladimirovich Gal'tsov to define what has become known as the Letelier-Gal'tsov spacetime.^[1] He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Boston University in 1977 under John Stachel. He joined the faculty of the University of Brasília until 1988 when became a Professor of Mathematical Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics of UNICAMP.

He died on Thursday, June 9, 2011 of a cardiac arrest in his home in Campinas.^[2]

In honor of his work, an astronomer he advised for a doctor thesis, named an asteroid he had discovered after Letelier: (109879) Letelier.^[3]

• Patricio Letelier's profile at inSpire with publications, co-authors, and citations
• Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge UK 1994
• Spinning Strings, Black Holes and Stable Closed Timelike Geodesics
• Relativistic ring models
• Patricio A.S. Letelier's Mathematics Genealogy