| 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 lecturer there. His wife Irmtraud Stephani is a mathematician at the same university. He retired in 2000.