Eugène Cremmer

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Eugène Cremmer (born February 7, 1942 in Paris ; † October 30, 2019 there ) was a French theoretical and mathematical physicist .

Career

Cremmer studied from 1962 to 1966 at the École normal supérieure and made his diploma in 1967 at the University of Paris-Süd (Orsay, Laboratory for High Energy Physics). In 1970 he did his doctorate there with Michel Gourdin. From 1966 he was a researcher at the CNRS (located in Orsay until 1974), from 1979 as Maitre de Recherche and from 1989 as Research Director. In 1971/2 he was in the theory department at CERN . From 1974 he worked at the Laboratory for Theoretical Physics of the École Normale Supérieure, from 2002 to 2005 as director.

With Bernard Julia and Joël Scherk , he constructed supergravity in 11 dimensions in 1978 . Shortly afterwards he constructed N = 8 supergravity with Julia and investigated the Higgs mechanism in supergravity. After that he was further active in string theory and supergravity. His interests include non-critical string theories and quantum groups in the Liouville theory of two-dimensional quantum gravity.

In 1983 he received the CNRS silver medal and in 1981 the Prix Thibault.

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References

  1. ↑ Entry on Eugene Cremmer in Fichier des personnes décédées , accessed on June 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ Cremmer, Julia, Scherk Supergravity in 11 dimensions ; Physics Letters B 76, 1978, p. 409
  3. ↑ Cremmer, Julia N = 8 supergravity 1. The Lagrangian , Physical Letters B 80, 1978, p. 48
  4. ↑ Cremmer, Julia, Ferrara, Girardello, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Scherk Super Higgs-Effect in supergravity with general scalar interaction , Physics Letters, B 79, 1979, p. 231, same: Spontaneous symmetry breaking and Higgs effect in supergravity without cosmological constant , Nuclear Physics B 147, 1979, p. 105
personal data
SURNAME Cremmer, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2019
Place of death Paris