Claude Bloch

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Claude Bloch (born March 18, 1923 in Paris , † December 29, 1971 ) was a French theoretical physicist .

Bloch studied from 1942 in Paris at the elite university École polytechnique (graduated in 1946) and then belonged to the Corps des mines . From 1948 to 1951 he was at the Niels Bohr Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen and from 1952 to 1953 at Caltech in California . He then worked at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), with whom he had worked since 1946, mainly on the theory of nuclear reactors. In 1959 he became head of the mathematics department and in 1963 of the theoretical physics department (when the Service de Physique Théorique was founded) and from 1971 of the physics department at their research center in Saclay . He died of a heart attack when he was only 48.

Bloch made significant contributions to nuclear physics and statistical mechanics. He worked with Roger Balian on asymptotic evolutions (published by Balian posthumously in 1974) and in the 1960s on many-body theory .

He received the Prix Henri Poincaré and in 1972 the Prix ​​Jean Ricard .

ML Mehta is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts

  • Roger Balian , Cyrano de Dominicis , Albert Messiah , Vincent Gillet (eds.): Claude Bloch, Oeuvre Scientifique, 2 volumes, North Holland 1975, 2012
  • Claude Bloch (Ed.): Many body description of nuclear structure and reactions, Enrico Fermi School, Varenna 1965, Academic Press 1966

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commission des Annales des mines: Annales des mines , p. 6. Compagnie française d'éditions, 1972
  2. ↑ In the history of the theory department of Saclay it is mentioned that he joined the theory group at Fort Chatillon in 1950
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1971