André Neveu | |
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| Born | (1946-08-28)August 28, 1946 (age 79) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure University of Paris XI |
| Known for | RNS formalism Neveu–Schwarz algebra Neveu–Schwarz B-field Gross–Neveu model |
| Awards | Dirac Medal(2020) Three Physicists Prize(2005) Prix Paul Langevin(1973) Peccot Lectures(1974-1975) Procter Fellowship |
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| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Doctoral advisor | Claude Bouchiat Philippe Meyer [fr] |
André Neveu (French:[nəvø]; born 28 August 1946) is a Frenchphysicist working onstring theory andquantum field theory who coinvented theNeveu–Schwarz algebra and theGross–Neveu model.
Neveu studied in Paris at theÉcole Normale Supérieure (ENS). In 1969, he received his diploma (Thèse de troisième cycle) atUniversity of Paris XI in Orsay withPhilippe Meyer [fr] andClaude Bouchiat and in 1971 he completed his doctorate (Doctorat d'État) there.
In 1969, he and his classmate from ENS and Orsay,Joël Scherk, together withJohn H. Schwarz andDavid Gross at Princeton University, examined divergences in one-loop diagrams of thebosonic string theory (and discovered the cause oftachyon divergences).[1] From 1971 to 1974, Neveu was at the Laboratory for High Energy Physics of the University of Paris XI where he and Scherk showed that spin-1 excitations of strings could describeYang–Mills theories.[2] In 1971, Neveu with John Schwarz in Princeton developed, at the same time asPierre Ramond (1971), the first string theory that also described fermions (calledRNS formalism after its three originators).[3] This was an early appearance of the ideas ofsupersymmetry which were being developed independently at that time by several groups. A few years later, Neveu, working in Princeton with David Gross, developed the Gross–Neveu model.[4] WithRoger Dashen and Brosl Hasslacher, he examined, among other things, quantum-field-theoretic models of extended hadrons and semiclassical approximations in quantum field theory which are reflected in the DHN method of the quantization ofsolitons. From 1972 to 1977, Neveu was at theInstitute for Advanced Study while spending half of the time in Orsay. From 1974 to 1983, he was at the Laboratory for Theoretical Physics of the ENS and from 1983 to 1989 in the theory department atCERN. From 1975, he wasMaitre de recherche in theCNRS and from 1985Directeur de recherche. From 1989, he was at the Institute (Laboratory) for Theoretical Physics of theUniversity of Montpellier II (now L2C, Laboratory Charles Coulomb). From 1994 to 1995, he was a visiting professor in theUniversity of California, Berkeley.
In 1973, Neveu received thePaul Langevin Prize of theSociété Française de Physique.[5] In 1988, he received theGentner-Kastler Prize awarded jointly by the Société Française de Physique and theDeutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG).[6] In 2020m he was awarded theDirac Medal of the ICTP.[7]
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