Eugène Cremmer (7 February 1942, in

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– 30 October 2019, in Paris) was a French theoretical physicist. He was directeur de recherche at the

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working at the

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. Cremmer was a postdoc at

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from 1971–72. In 1978, together with

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and Joël Scherk, he co-developed

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''The Theory Formerly Known as Strings''

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Feb 1998, 64–69. and proposed a mechanism of spontaneous compactification in field theory.E Cremmer, J Scherk: Spontaneous compactification of space in an Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs model - Nuclear Physics B, 1976 He was also one of the first to write down the full 4D N = 1 supergravity action in 1982.

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