Albert Messiah
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Albert Messiah (23 September 1921, Nice – 17 April 2013, Paris) was a French physicist.[1] He studied at the
Ecole Polytechnique
.
He spent the Hitler's Eagle's nest at Berchtesgaden
in 1945.
As a French Jew who escaped
Washington, DC and Marshak suggested that Messiah come to the University of Rochester
and get a US PhD in physics.
He returned to France and introduced the first general courses of
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique
(CEA) where he stayed until the end of his career.
Messiah collaborated with
quarks, which was the first suggestion that quarks carry a hidden three-valued charge, now colloquially called "color charge
."
He was the director of the Physics Division at the
CEA and professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University
.
He was honored as Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur of France (2012).
Book
His classic textbook on quantum mechanics Mecanique Quantique (Dunod 1959), translated as Quantum Mechanics [2] has trained generations of French and world physicists.
References
- ^ "Décès du physicien Albert Messiah". Lefigaro.fr. 2007-10-29. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
- ISBN 0486409244.
External links
Wikiquote has quotations related to Albert Messiah.
- Testimony of Albert Messiah on the French Resistance during École polytechnique conference of 14 January 2009, in French
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Family: At the time of his death, he was married to Janine Grenier-Messiah. His children were Martine Messiah, Antoine Messiah and Pierre-Henri Messiah.
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