Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat

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Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat (born Baudot ; born March 5, 1912 in Charolles ; † December 3, 1980 in Paris ) was a French theoretical physicist who dealt in particular with general relativity (GTR) and its history.

Tonnelat attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and studied at the Institut Catholique of the Sorbonne in Paris with a degree in philosophy. At the same time she visited Jean Perrin's laboratory in 1933/34 and from 1935 was in Louis de Broglie's group at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, where she received her doctorate in 1940 (theory of the photon in a Riemannian space). In 1948 she took part in the Solvay Conference . From 1945 she did research for the CNRS , most recently as research director. In 1956 she became a professor at the Sorbonne, where she also taught history of science. As early as 1949, she taught the history of physics at the Institute for the History of Science at the Sorbonne (headed by Gaston Bachelard ). After de Broglie's death, she was his successor on the chair for theoretical physics.

She dealt with non-linear electrodynamics (according to Born-Infeld), the theory of graviton and various unified field theories according to Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger . In 1946 she worked with Schrödinger at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Study. She corresponded with Schrödinger and Einstein and received an invitation to Princeton from Einstein in 1955 shortly before his death.

In 1970 she received the Prix Henri Poincaré of the Academie des Sciences and in 1945 the Prix Pierson Perrin. She was a member of the Academie Internationale d´Histoire des Sciences.

She was friends with Wolfgang Döblin in the 1930s , but then married Jacques Tonnelat, the son of Ernest Tonnelat (a German scholar , friend of Alfred Döblin ). After Döblin's disappearance in 1940, she looked for traces of him and told his parents about his death.

Fonts

  • La Théorie du champ unifié d'Einstein et quelques-uns de ses développements , Gauthier-Villars, 1955
  • Les Principes de la théorie électromagnétique de la relativité , Masson, 1959
  • Les Vérifications expérimentales de la relativité générale , Masson, 1964
  • Les Théories unitaires de l'électromagnétisme et de la gravitation , Gauthier-Villars, 1965
  • Histoire du principe de relativité , Flammarion, 1970

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The dissertation deals with the wave mechanics of gravitons (spin 2 particles) in a linearized ART
  2. ↑ Bernard Bru Doeblin life and work from the correspondence , in Harry Cohn (Editor) probability Doeblin and modern , Contemporary Mathematics 149, 1993, AMS, p.7
personal data
SURNAME Tonnelat, Marie-Antoinette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Charolles
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1980
Place of death Paris