Raymond Stora
Raymond Stora | |
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Born | Paris, France |
September 18, 1930
Died | July 20, 2015 Geneva, Switzerland |
Nationality | French |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de physique des particules |
Alma mater | École Polytechnique, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Notable awards | Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 2009 Max Planck Medal, 1998 |
Raymond Félix Stora (18 September 1930 – 20 July 2015[1]) was a French theoretical physicist. He was a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), as well as a member of CERN's theory group. His work focused on particle physics.[2]
Stora studied at the École Polytechnique from 1951 to 1953, and then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received a doctorate in 1958 under the supervision of Victor Weisskopf . Stora's most influential contribution to physics was his work with Carlo Becchi and Alain Rouet on a rigorous mathematical procedure for quantizing non-abelian gauge field theories, which dates from the mid 1970s and is now known as BRST quantization.
Stora was elected as a correspondent to the physics section of the French Academy of Sciences in 1994.[2] In 2009, he was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.[3]
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- French physicists
- Winners of the Max Planck Medal
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- École Polytechnique alumni
- Scientists from Paris
- Mathematical physicists
- People associated with CERN
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