Gérard Emch

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Gérard Gustav Emch (born July 21, 1936 in Geneva ; † March 5, 2013 in Gainesville (Florida) ) was a Swiss mathematical physicist.

Emch attended school in Geneva with the Abitur in 1955 and studied physics at the University of Geneva with a diploma in 1959, was there from 1959 assistant for theoretical physics and received his doctorate in 1963 under Josef-Maria Jauch (Mécanique quantique quaternionienne et Relativité restreinte). In 1964 he went as a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton University and 1965-66 he was at the University of Maryland. He was from 1966 Assistant Professor, from 1971 Associate Professor and from 1978 Professor at the University of Rochester . In 1986 he went to the University of Florida in Gainesville as a professor of mathematics and physics .

He is one of the pioneers of access to the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics with C * algebras .

In 1985 he was a Gauss Professor in Göttingen. In 2004 he became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In 1975/76 and 1984 he was at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University. In 1993/94 he was visiting professor at the University of Vienna and 1970/71 at the University of Nijmegen.

He had been married to Antoinette Emch-Dériaz since 1959 and had a son and a daughter.

Charles Radin is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

  • Mathematical and conceptual foundations of 20th-century physics, North Holland 1984
  • Algebraic Methods in Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory, Wiley-Interscience 1972, Dover 2014
  • with Chuang Liu: The logic of thermostatistical Physics, Springer 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Gérard Emch in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Emch, Gérard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emch, Gérard Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2013
Place of death Gainesville (Florida)