Henri Bacry

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Henri Bacry (born October 29, 1928 in Algiers , † June 9, 2010 in Paris ) was a French mathematical and theoretical physicist.

Life

Bacry received his doctorate in Algiers in 1962 at the Faculté des Sciences there (forerunner of the university), where he was an assistant. He became a mathematics teacher at the Lycée Bugeaud in Algiers and in 1969 a professor at the Faculté des Sciences in Marseille. In 1964/65 Bacry was a visiting scientist at CERN . In 1966/67 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . He was a professor at the University of Aix-Marseille (Université de la Méditeranée) at the Center for Theoretical Physics of the University and the CNRS .

He dealt with theoretical elementary particle physics, in particular with the application of group theoretical methods (such as the representation theory of the Poincaré group ), but also with optics, solid state physics and statistical mechanics. He also wrote a book on group theory in geometry.

In 1972 he founded the International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics.

Fonts

  • with Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond Possible Kinematics , J. Math. Phys., Volume 9, 1969, p. 1605 ( discussed by Freeman Dyson in his essay Missed opportunities )
  • Group theory and constellations. Editions Publibook, 2004,

literature

  • René Mayer: Français d'Afrique du Nord: ce qu'ils sont devenus--: dictionnaire biographique. René Mayer, 2007, ISBN 978-2-9527573-1-7 , p. 264 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Karl Strute (Ed.): Who's Who in Technology, Volumes 1-3. 1984-: International red series. Who's Who Book & Pub. für Internationale Biographische Enzyklopädien, 1984, p. 100 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A traditional school founded in 1862, which Albert Camus , Jacques Derrida and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji , among others, attended and at which Fernand Braudel taught, among others
  2. ↑ Bacry, Henri - Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved July 17, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bacry, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bacry, Henri Mardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Algiers
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2010
Place of death Paris