Michel Baranger

Michel JL Baranger (born July 31, 1927 in Le Mans , † October 1, 2014 in Tucson ) was a French-American theoretical physicist .

Baranger attended the école normal supérieure from 1945 to 1949 and received his doctorate in 1951 from Cornell University under Hans Bethe with a thesis on relativistic corrections of the Lamb shift (which Bethe had previously calculated non-relativistically). At Cornell and then from 1953 to 1955 at Caltech , he was also assistant to Richard Feynman . From 1955 he was at the Carnegie Institute of Technology , where he was assistant professor in 1956 and professor in 1964, and from 1969 professor at MIT , where he was professor emeritus. He was also at the New England Complex Systems Institute .

In 1961/62 he was a Senior Fellow of the National Science Foundation at the Sorbonne.

In addition to quantum electrodynamics , Baranger mainly dealt with nuclear physics (microscopic theory of core models, collective core models), but from the 1990s onwards also with non-linear dynamics and chaos theory (transition to quantum chaos, especially in many-particle theory , thermodynamics and chaos).

He had been married to the physics professor and theoretical nuclear physicist Elizabeth Urey Baranger (* 1927) at the University of Pittsburgh since 1951 and had two sons and a daughter. He was a US citizen. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society .

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↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
^ Professor of Physics Emeritus Michel Baranger (1927–2014), MIT Department of Physics . October 21, 2014.
↑ Feynman said in retrospect that the collaboration suffered from the fact that when he gave Baranger a problem, he solved it himself in the discussion, Mehra Beat of a different drum , Clarendon Press, p. 405. This was also one of the reasons why Feynman had few students.

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SURNAME	Baranger, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baranger, Michel JL
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French-American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Le Mans
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 2014
Place of death	Tucson

[1] Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.

[2] Professor of Physics Emeritus Michel Baranger (1927–2014), MIT Department of Physics . October 21, 2014.

[3] Feynman said in retrospect that the collaboration suffered from the fact that when he gave Baranger a problem, he solved it himself in the discussion, Mehra Beat of a different drum , Clarendon Press, p. 405. This was also one of the reasons why Feynman had few students.