Jules Géhéniau
Jules Géhéniau (born March 31, 1909 in Deux-Acren , † June 11, 1991 in Brussels ) was a Belgian theoretical physicist. He was a professor at the Free University of Brussels .
Geheniau, who attended secondary school in Ath, studied at the Free University of Brussels from 1927 to 1931, where he received his doctorate from Théophile de Donder . During the Second World War he was a member of the Belgian resistance. From 1964 to 1966 he was dean of his faculty in Brussels.
He was influenced by the studies of French mathematicians and physicists such as Louis de Broglie and in the 1930s he developed quantum electrodynamics with quantized (spin 1) fields and macroscopic fields. He also dealt with classical electrodynamics, with general relativity (influenced by his teacher De Donder) and with Heisenberg's unified nonlinear spinor field theory of 1957, in which he tried to build gravity. This also resulted in collaboration with the Heisenberg group from Munich. With Ilya Prigogine he dealt with thermodynamic questions of cosmology in the late 1980s.
He also published purely mathematical works.
Geheniau participated in several Solvay conferences and was a member of the Solvay Institute. From 1950 he was a corresponding member and from 1957 a full member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences.
Marc Henneaux is one of his doctoral students .
Fonts
- Mecanique ondulatoire de l'electron et du photon , Gauthier-Villars 1938
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geheniau Contribution a la Théorie de la lumière de L. de Broglie , Herman, Paris 1939
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Géhéniau, Jules |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Deux acres |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1991 |
| Place of death | Brussels |