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 Joël Scherk (; 27 May 1946 – 16 May 1980) was a French theoretical physicist who studied string theory and supergravity. Work Scherk studied in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). In 1969 he received his diploma (Thèse de troisiè ...

, he co-developed 11 dimensional

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theoryDuff M
''The Theory Formerly Known as Strings''

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Feb 1998, 64–69. and proposed a mechanism of spontaneous

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in field theory.E Cremmer, J Scherk: Spontaneous compactification of space in an Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs model - Nuclear Physics B, 1976

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1942 births 2019 deaths 20th-century French physicists 21st-century French physicists French string theorists École Normale Supérieure alumni French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists {{france-physicist-stub People associated with CERN