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'''Maurice Marc Lévy''' (7 September 1922 – 13 April 2022) was a French physicist and teacher. He was president of the [[CNES]] from 1973 to 1976.<ref>[https://www.tf1info.fr/sciences-et-innovation/le-physicien-maurice-levy-fondateur-de-la-cite-des-sciences-est-mort-2216614.html Le physicien français Maurice Lévy est décédé à l'âge de 99 ans] {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.la-croix.com/Mort-physicien-Maurice-Levy-fondateur-Cite-sciences-2022-04-13-1301210250|title = Mort du physicien Maurice Lévy, fondateur de la Cité des sciences|newspaper = La Croix|date = 13 April 2022}}</ref> |
'''Maurice Marc Lévy''' (7 September 1922 – 13 April 2022) was a French physicist and teacher. He was president of the [[CNES]] from 1973 to 1976.<ref>[https://www.tf1info.fr/sciences-et-innovation/le-physicien-maurice-levy-fondateur-de-la-cite-des-sciences-est-mort-2216614.html Le physicien français Maurice Lévy est décédé à l'âge de 99 ans] {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.la-croix.com/Mort-physicien-Maurice-Levy-fondateur-Cite-sciences-2022-04-13-1301210250|title = Mort du physicien Maurice Lévy, fondateur de la Cité des sciences|newspaper = La Croix|date = 13 April 2022}}</ref> |
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Maurice Lévy obtained his baccalaureate at the Lycée Bugeaud in Algiers, and then graduated in mathematics and physics from the University of Algiers. |
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He then obtained a graduate degree in optics and entered the CNRS in 1945. He left Algeria for France and joined the Physical Research Laboratory of the Sorbonne (LRPS), directed by Jean Cabannes. After a brief stay at the University of Leiden, he defended his thesis in 1949 under the supervision of Jean Cabannes. Louis de Broglie participated in his thesis examination. |
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In 1949, he visited the University of Manchester to work under the direction of [[Léon Rosenfeld]]. In 1950, he joined the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in Princeton, directed by [[Robert Oppenheimer]]. |
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He returned to France in 1952, became senior researcher at the CNRS and worked in the physics department of the ENS, directed by Yves Rocard. He taught quantum mechanics for twelve years to first-year students at the ENS. He was appointed professor at the Bordeaux Faculty of Science in 1953, then at the Paris Faculty of Science in 1954. He participated with Yves Rocard in the creation of the Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL). |
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He was a professor at the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University right from its foundation in 1971, and a researcher at the Laboratory of Theoretical and High Energy Physics (LPTHE), collaborating in particular with Jean-Louis Basdevant and with [[John Iliopoulos]]. |
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In 1960, he co-authored with [[Murray Gell-Mann]] a seminal paper<ref>{{Citation |
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| bibcode=1960NCim...16..705G}} </ref> on the [[Sigma model]], which served as a cynosure for [[particle physics]] in the following decades, providing the modern framework for understanding the weak interactions and their interplay with [[chiral symmetry breaking]] by the strong interactions. |
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He was made [[Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur]] on 13 July 1993.<ref> https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000544382 </ref> |
He was made [[Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur]] on 13 July 1993.<ref> https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000544382 </ref> |
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Revision as of 15:00, 27 April 2022
Maurice Lévy | |
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| Born | 7 September 1922 |
| Died | 13 April 2022 (aged 99) |
| Education | University of Paris |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Known for | President of the CNES (1973-1976) |
Maurice Marc Lévy (7 September 1922 – 13 April 2022) was a French physicist and teacher. He was president of the CNES from 1973 to 1976.[1][2]
Maurice Lévy obtained his baccalaureate at the Lycée Bugeaud in Algiers, and then graduated in mathematics and physics from the University of Algiers. He then obtained a graduate degree in optics and entered the CNRS in 1945. He left Algeria for France and joined the Physical Research Laboratory of the Sorbonne (LRPS), directed by Jean Cabannes. After a brief stay at the University of Leiden, he defended his thesis in 1949 under the supervision of Jean Cabannes. Louis de Broglie participated in his thesis examination.
In 1949, he visited the University of Manchester to work under the direction of Léon Rosenfeld. In 1950, he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, directed by Robert Oppenheimer.
He returned to France in 1952, became senior researcher at the CNRS and worked in the physics department of the ENS, directed by Yves Rocard. He taught quantum mechanics for twelve years to first-year students at the ENS. He was appointed professor at the Bordeaux Faculty of Science in 1953, then at the Paris Faculty of Science in 1954. He participated with Yves Rocard in the creation of the Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL).
He was a professor at the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University right from its foundation in 1971, and a researcher at the Laboratory of Theoretical and High Energy Physics (LPTHE), collaborating in particular with Jean-Louis Basdevant and with John Iliopoulos.
In 1960, he co-authored with Murray Gell-Mann a seminal paper[3] on the Sigma model, which served as a cynosure for particle physics in the following decades, providing the modern framework for understanding the weak interactions and their interplay with chiral symmetry breaking by the strong interactions.
He was made Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur on 13 July 1993.[4]
References
- ^ Le physicien français Maurice Lévy est décédé à l'âge de 99 ans (in French)
- ^ "Mort du physicien Maurice Lévy, fondateur de la Cité des sciences". La Croix. 13 April 2022.
- ^ Gell-Mann, M.; Lévy, M. (1960), "The axial vector current in beta decay", Il Nuovo Cimento, 16: 705–726, Bibcode:1960NCim...16..705G, doi:10.1007/BF02859738
- ^ https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000544382
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