Daniel Chancellor
Daniel Kastler (born March 4, 1926 in Bandol ; † July 8, 2015 ) was a French theoretical physicist.
Kastler is the son of the Physics Nobel Prize winner Alfred Kastler . He was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Aix-Marseille (Luminy), where he had been a professor since 1977. With Rudolf Haag , he founded the "Local Quantum Physics" approach to the mathematical description of quantum field theories ( Haag-Kastler axioms ) in the 1960s . Later he dealt with applications of operator algebras in statistical mechanics and from the 1980s on non-commutative geometry according to Alain Connes (in particular their applications in elementary particle physics, introduced by Connes).
In 1984 Kastler was awarded the Prix Ampère of the French Academy of Sciences . He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Austrian Academy of Sciences and has been a member of the Leopoldina since 1995 .
Fonts
- Haag, Kastler: An algebraic approach to quantum field theory , J. Math. Phys. Vol. 5, 1964, pp. 848-861
- Cyclic cohomology within the differential envelope: an introduction to Alain Connes non-commutative differential geometry , 1988
- Introduction al´électrodynamique quantique , Paris, Dunod, 1960
literature
- Biography in Palle Jörgensen, Paul Muhly (editor): Operator algebras and mathematical Physics . Contemporary Mathematics, AMS 1987
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chancellor, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bandol |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 2015 |