Raymond Stora

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Raymond Félix Stora (born September 18, 1930 in Paris - † July 20, 2015 ) was a French theoretical physicist who mainly worked on quantum field theory .

Life

Stora attended the École polytechnique from 1951 to 1953 (where he studied the spectrum of muons from the decay of the K meson under Louis Michel in 1952 ) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1954 to 1957 . There he received the M. Sc. In 1955 for a thesis prepared under Stan Olbert on the hadronic component of cosmic radiation . and received his doctorate in 1958 with a dissertation on the regularization of quantum electrodynamics supervised by Victor Weisskopf . In 1961/2 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . From 1957 to 1970 he was a scientist at the nuclear research center in Saclay ( Center d'Etudes nucléaires de Saclay des Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA)), where he a. a. studied with Marcel Froissart the depolarization of polarized protons in the 3 GeV synchrotron of Saclay. With Pierre Moussa he investigated the angular distribution in two-particle scattering. From 1970 to 1981 he worked for the CNRS at the CPT (Center for Theoretical Physics) at the University of Marseille . From 1978 on he was a scientist at the LAPP ("Le Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules") in Annecy (more precisely in the theory department LAPT) as well as in the theory department at CERN and a permanent scientist at the CNRS.

Stora was best known for his work with Carlo Becchi and Alain Rouet from 1976. The formalism described therein for the quantization of non-Abelian gauge theories (and generally for systems with constraints) is called the BRS formalism after the first letters of the surname. Stora also worked u. a. on the algebraic structure of anomalies in quantum field theory.

Stora was a member of the Académie des Sciences , whose Prix Joannidès he received in 1989, and a Knight of the Legion of Honor . In 1992 he received the Prix ​​Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society . In 1998 he received the Max Planck Medal (his lecture was published in the Physikalische Blätter ). In 2009 he was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics .

His doctoral students include Jean Bellissard and Frédéric Pham .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Stora: High Energy Nucleonic Component of Cosmic Rays at Mountain Altitudes . MIT, 1955 ( cern.ch [PDF] M.Sc. Thesis).
  2. ^ R. Stora: Investigation on regulators in quantum electrodynamics . MIT, 1958 ( cern.ch [PDF] doctoral thesis).
  3. ↑ Froissart, Stora Dépolarisation d'un faisceau de protons , Nucl. Instr. Meth., Vol. 7, 1960, p. 297
  4. ^ Moussa, Stora Angular analysis of elementary particle reactions , in Hercegnovi, Nikolic (editor) Methods in subnuclear physics , Gordon and Breach 1968
  5. ↑ Obituaries - October 28, 2015: Raymond Stora 1930–2015 . CERN Courier. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  6. ↑ Stora, Raymond - Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  7. ↑ Becchi, Rouet, Stora "Renormalization of Abelian Higgs Kibble", Communications in Mathematical Physics Vol. 42, 1975, p. 127, "Renormalization of gauge theories", Annals of Physics, Vol. 98, 1976, 287
  8. ^ Mathematical Avatars in theoretical physics . In: Physical sheets . tape 54 , no. 7/8 , p. 621 , doi : 10.1002 / phbl.19980540713 .
personal data
SURNAME Stora, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stora, Raymond Félix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 2015