| Hans Stephani | |
| Birth Date: | 20 January 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Brumby, Germany |
| Citizenship: | German |
| Field: | Relativity Mathematics |
| Thesis Title: | The structure of fields and equations of motion of charged gravitating point masses in the first and second (post-Newtonian) approximation (of Einstein’s theory) |
| Thesis Year: | 1963 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Ernst Schmutzer[1] |
Hans Stephani (January 20, 1935 — September 14, 2003) was a German physicist who mainly worked on the General theory of relativity.[2]
Stephani obtained his master's degree at Jena in 1958 under the supervision of Gerhard Heber. He finished his PhD under Ernst Schmutzer at University of Jena and joined as a lecturer there. His wife Irmtraud Stephani is a mathematician at the same university. He retired in 2000.