John Iliopoulos

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John Iliopoulos at the École normal supérieure , 2009

John Iliopoulos (also Jean Iliopoulos, Greek Ιωάννης Ηλιόπουλος Ioánnis Iliópoulos , * 1940 in Kalamata , Greece ) is a Greek particle physicist .

Iliopoulos studied at the Technical University in Athens (graduated in 1962) and then in Paris, where he graduated from DEA in 1963, graduated in physics in 1965 (thesis de 3rd cycle) and in 1968 at the theory group in Orsay with Claude Bouchiat and Philippe Meyer received his doctorate. From 1966 to 1968 he was at CERN and then from 1969 to 1971 Research Associate at Harvard . Then he was a scientist at the CNRS . He is currently director of the Institute for Particle Physics at the École normal supérieure in Paris .

In 1970, Sheldon Lee Glashow , Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani were the first to use the GIM mechanism to provide an indication of the existence of a fourth quark, later known as the charm quark . In 1972, together with Claude Bouchiat and Philippe Meyer, he gave conditions for the disappearance of anomalies in the electroweak interaction, which at that time provided further evidence of the existence of three degrees of color freedom.

In 2002, Iliopoulos was the first recipient of the Aristeio Prize, created to honor Greeks who have made significant contributions to their field of science. In 1987 he and Maiani received the Sakurai Prize for theoretical particle physics. In 1990 he became a corresponding member and in 2002 a full member of the Académie des sciences . In 2007 Iliopoulos and Maiani received the Dirac Medal . In 1978 Iliopoulos received the Paul Langevin Prize and in 2013 the Prix ​​des trois physiciens . In 2011 he received the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize from the EPS.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ SL Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani: Weak Interactions with Lepton-Hadron Symmetry . In: Physical Review . Volume D2, 1970, pp. 1285-1292.
  2. ↑ Bouchiat, Iliopoulos, Meyer: An anomaly-free version of the Weinberg's model. In: Physics Letters B. Volume 38, 1972, pp. 519-523
personal data
SURNAME Iliopoulos, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iliopoulos, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalamata , Greece