Jean Zinn-Justin
Jean Zinn-Justin (born July 10, 1943 in Berlin ) is a French theoretical physicist.
Zinn-Justin worked as a theoretical physicist in Saclay , the nuclear research center of the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) , since 1965 . From 1993 to 1998 he was head of theoretical physics at the CEA. He was visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Princeton University , the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1972) and Harvard University as well as visiting scholar at CERN . From 1987 to 1995 he was director of the summer schools for theoretical physics at Les Houches . In 2003 he became head of DAPNIA (Department of Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Associated Instrumentation) at the French nuclear research center Saclay.
He mainly dealt with quantum field theory in particle physics (especially with the renormalization group ) and with the connection to the statistical mechanics of phase transitions , about which he published an extensive book.
In 1977 Jean Zinn-Justin was awarded the Paul Langevin Prize , and in 1981 the Prix Ampère . In 1996 he received the Gentner-Kastler-Prize and in 2003 the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize .
Fonts
- Quantum Field Theory and Critical Phenomena, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989, 1993, 1996, 4th edition 2002
- Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Oxford University Press 2005
- Phase Transitions and Renormalization Group, Oxford University Press 2007
- Quantum field theory, renormalization and the renormalization group, Physikalische Blätter 1996 (speech on the occasion of the award of the Gentner-Kastler Prize)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tin-Justin, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |