Alexander Grossmann (5 August 1930 – 12 February 2019) was a
French-
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physicist
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of
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He travelled to the United States in 1955, working in the physics departments of the
Institute for Advanced Study
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(IAS), Princeton, Brandeis University, and the Courant Institute, NYU, then again at the IAS until 1963.
After one year at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France, he joined the "Centre de Physique Théorique de Marseille" (the CPT) as it was being created in 1966, at the request of
Daniel Kastler
Daniel Kastler (; 4 March 1926 – 4 July 2015) was a French theoretical physicist, working on the foundations of quantum field theory and on non-commutative geometry.
Biography
Daniel Kastler was born on March 4, 1926, in Colmar, a city of no ...
. He then becomes research supervisor at the
CNRS
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At the
Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II
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in
Luminy
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campus he did pioneering work on
wavelet
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analysis with
Jean Morlet in 1984. This in effect showed this identity's applicability to signal analysis.
In 1993, he became involved in genomic research as part of a group formed in Gif-sur-Yvette. He worked in this area with what eventually became the Laboratoire de Mathématique & Modélisation d’Evry until 2014.
Grossmann died on 12 February 2019.
Publications
* Description of the Extended Tube (1960)
* Algebraic Characterization of the TCP Operation (1960)
* Schrödinger Scattering Amplitude (I) (1961)
* Schrödinger Scattering Amplitude (II) (1961)
* Schrödinger Scattering Amplitude (III) (1962)
* Nested Hilbert Spaces in Quantum Mechanics (I) (1964)
* Fields at a Point (1967)
* A class of explicitly soluble, local, many‐center Hamiltonians for one‐particle quantum mechanics in two and three dimensions (I) (1980)
* The one particle theory of periodic point interactions (1980)
* Fermi pseudopotential in higher dimensions (1981)
* Decomposition of Hardy Functions into Square Integrable Wavelets of Constant Shape (1984)
* Use of Wavelet transform in the Study of Propagation of Transient Acoustic Signals Across a Plane Interface Between Two Homogeneous Media (1984)
* Wavelets on Discrete Fields Kristin Flornes, Alex Grossmann, Matthias Holschneider, Bruno Torrésani Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (1994)
* Proceeding: Perspectives in Mathematical Physics, International Conference in honor of Alex Grossmann (1997)
* On the Analysis of Pairwise Alignments of Protein Sequences (1998)
* Transition Rate Matrices Determined By Families of Alignments Give Information About Evolution (1999)
* Rate Matrices for Analyzing Large Families of Protein Sequences (2001)
* Constructing Hierarchical Set Systems (2003)
* Rate matrices for analyzing large families of protein sequences (2004)
* Variable length local decoding and alignment-free sequence comparison (2012)
References
External links
* https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/1.9780898718119.ch2
1930 births
2019 deaths
French physicists
Croatian physicists
Croatian emigrants to France
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