Joël Scherk
Joël Scherk | |
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| Born | 27 May 1946 |
| Died | 16 May 1980 (aged 33) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Paris-Sud University |
| Known for | Scherk–Schwarz mechanism GSO projection |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Doctoral advisor | Claude Bouchiat Philippe Meyer |
Joël Scherk (French: [jɔɛl ʃɛʁk]; 27 May 1946 – 16 May 1980) was a French theoretical physicist who studied string theory and supergravity.[1]
Work
Scherk studied in Paris at the
Doctorat d'État) at the same time as his colleague André Neveu.[2]
In 1974, together with
John H. Schwarz, Scherk realised that string theory was a theory of quantum gravity. In 1978, together with Eugène Cremmer and Bernard Julia, Scherk constructed the Lagrangian and supersymmetry transformations for supergravity in eleven dimensions,[3] which is one of the foundations of M-theory
.
He died unexpectedly, and in tragic circumstances, months after the supergravity workshop at the
The high-energy theory library of the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique at
École Normale Supérieure (Paris) is dedicated in his honor. A conference in Paris, on 16–20 October 2006, celebrating 30 years of supergravity,[6]
was dedicated to Scherk.
See also
References
- ^ INSPIRE-HEP list of Joël Scherk's scientific publications: http://inspirehep.net/search?p=find+author+joel+scherk
- S2CID 17286558, retrieved 2021-07-23
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- ^ Supergravity. Proceedings of a Workshop at Stony Brook, 27–29 September 1979 by P. van Nieuwenhuizen, D. Z. Freedman, editors. Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland (1979).
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- ^ "30 Years of Supergravity"
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