Michel Gaudin (physicist)
Michel Gaudin (born December 2, 1931 ) is a French physicist.
After training as a bridge engineer, Gaudin came to the CEA atomic research institute in Saclay in 1956 to work on neutron experiments. Two years later he joined Claude Bloch's theoretical working group there , to which he belonged for the rest of his career. Among other things, Gaudin deals with the quantum mechanical description of many-body systems, especially spin systems. The Gaudin model is named after him, in which a central spin couples to many of the surrounding spins.
In 1960 he wrote some pioneering work on random matrices with ML Mehta .
Gaudin is the recipient of the Fondation Saintour Prize, which has been awarded every two years by the Collège de France since 1889 . For 2019 he was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics from the American Physical Society .
Publications
- M. Gaudin, Modèles exactement résolus , EDP Sciences (1996) ISBN 2-86883-264-4 .
- M. Gaudin, La fonction d'onde de Bethe , Masson, Paris (1983) ISBN 2-225-79607-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog entry on Michel Gaudin in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
- ^ M. Gaudin: Foreword in: Modèles exactement résolu 1995.
- ^ College de France: Fondation Saintour. Retrieved February 14, 2011 .
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| SURNAME | Gaudin, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1931 |