Maurice Lévy (physicist)

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Maurice Lévy
President of the CNES
In office
1973–1976
Preceded byJean-François Denisse
Succeeded byHubert Curien
Personal details
Born(1922-09-07)7 September 1922
University of Algiers
University of Paris
ProfessionPhysicist

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]

Education

Maurice Lévy obtained his

University of Algiers
. He then obtained a graduate degree in optics and entered the
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.

Career

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 J. Robert Oppenheimer.

He returned to France in 1952, became senior researcher at the CNRS and worked in the physics department of the École normale supérieure (Paris) (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). In 1960, he established the physics summer school of Cargèse in Corsica; eventually, the program grew to the Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse.

He was a professor at the Pierre and 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.

Notable research and recognition

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 of the Légion d'honneur on 13 July 1993.[4]

References

  1. ^ Le physicien français Maurice Lévy est décédé à l'âge de 99 ans TF1 (in French)
  2. ^ "Mort du physicien Maurice Lévy, fondateur de la Cité des sciences". La Croix. 13 April 2022.
  3. S2CID 122945049
  4. ^ "Décret du 13 juillet 1993 portant promotion".
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