Philippe Nozières

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Philippe Pierre Nozières (born April 12, 1932 in Paris ) is a French theoretical solid-state physicist .

Nozières studied from 1951 to 1955 at the École normal supérieure (diploma 1955) and conducted research from 1955 to 1957 at Princeton University . In 1957 he received his doctorate from the University of Paris (“Collective Effects in Solids”). From 1961 to 1972 he was first Maitre de Conferences and then Professor at the University of Paris and from 1976 to 1983 Professor at the University of Grenoble . From 1972 he was at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble (from 1976 head of the theory group until 2000) and at the same time (from 1983) Professor of Statistical Physics at the Collège de France in Paris. In 2000 he retired.

Nozières is known for his theoretical work on the quantum mechanical many-particle problem in solids, in particular the quasiparticle concept in Bose and Fermi liquids (originally introduced in a more phenomenological manner by Lew Landau ) and the theory of free electron gas in the area of ​​metallic densities. He investigated superfluid 3 He, transport phenomena in solids, the Kondo problem , Mott transitions between metals and insulators, theory of the singularity of the X-ray spectrum at the Fermi edge , theory of friction, crystal growth and hydrodynamics of suspensions .

In 1969 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1974 he received the Holweck Prize from the British Institute of Physics and the French Physical Society and in 1960 the Paul Langevin Prize . In 1984/5 he received the Wolf Prize in Physics with Conyers Herring . In 1988 he received the CNRS gold medal . In 2001 he received the Feenberg Medal. Since 1982 he has been a member of the French Academy of Sciences . From 1979 to 1982 he was President of the Solid State Physics Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). In 1984 he was President of the French Physical Society. He is an honorary member of the European Physical Society . Since 1991 he has been an external member of the National Academy of Sciences , since 1992 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1994 a full member of the Academia Europaea .

Since 1982 he has been married to the scientist Catherine Michel, with whom he has a daughter. Philippe Nozières also has two other children from a previous marriage.

Fonts

  • with David Pines : Theory of quantum liquids . Volume 1 Normal Fermi Liquids . Benjamin 1966, Volume 2 Superfluid Bose Liquids . Benjamin 1966
  • Theory of interacting Fermi Systems . Benjamin 1964, Perseus Books 1997
  • Le problems à N Corps . Dunod 1963
  • Editor with Cécile DeWitt : The Many Body Problem , Les Houches Lectures 1958, London, Methuen

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SURNAME Nozières, Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nozières, Philippe Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris