Roland Omnes

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Roland Omnès (born February 18, 1931 ) is a French theoretical physicist who deals with the fundamentals of quantum mechanics .

Life

Omnès (who studied mathematics at the École normal supérieure from 1951 and received his doctorate at the University of Paris in 1956) was a professor at the University of Paris-Süd in Orsay , where he has now retired and was temporarily president.

He is considered to be one of the proponents (with Robert Griffiths , James Hartle , Murray Gell-Mann ) of the consistent histories interpretation of quantum mechanics using the ideas of decoherence . He also dealt with the philosophical interpretation of quantum mechanics.

In 1959 he received the Paul Langevin Prize .

Fonts

  • with Marcel Froissart Mandelstam Theory and Regge Poles: An Introduction for Experimentalists . WA Benjamin, 1963
  • Introduction à l'étude des particules élémentaires. Ediscience, 1970.
  • L'Univers et ses Métamorphoses. collection Savoir, Hermann, 1973.
  • Philosophy de la science contemporaine. Folio essais 256, Gallimard 1994.
  • The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Princeton University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-691-03669-1 .
  • Une nouvelle interprétation de la mécanique quantique. In: La Recherche (French edition of Scientific American), October 1995.
  • Quantum Philosophy - understanding and interpreting contemporary science. Princeton University Press, 1999 (French at Gallimard 1994).
  • Understanding Quantum Mechanics. Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-691-00435-8 , (French translation: Comprendre la mecanique quantique, EDP Sciences 2000).
  • Decoherence- an irreversible process. 2001, arxiv : quant-ph / 0106006 .
  • Converging realities: toward a common philosophy of physics and mathematics. Princeton University Press, 2004.
  • with Georges Charpak : Soyez savants, devenez prophètes. Editions Odile Jacob, 2004.
  • The indispensables de la Mécanique quantique. Odile Jacob, Paris 2006.
  • The révélation des lois de la nature. Odile Jacob, Paris 2008.
  • Decoherence and Reduction. 2006, arxiv : quant-ph / 0604130 .
personal data
SURNAME Omnes, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1931