Henri Bacry (1928–2010) was Professor Emeritus at the

Université de la Méditerranée The University of the Mediterranean Aix-Marseille II was a French university in the List of public universities in France by academy#Academy of Aix and Marseille, Academy of Aix and Marseille. Historically, it was part of the University of Aix-M ...

. Henri Bacry was assistant of

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

at the Faculté des Sciences d'Alger and then Professor of

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

at Lycée Bugeaud, before becoming, in 1969, Professor at the

Faculté des Sciences de Luminy Aix-Marseille University Faculty of Sciences is one of the faculties of Aix-Marseille University. The faculty is divided into seven departments across six campuses. With 8000 students and 1600 staff and faculty it is one of the largest science facu ...

. He was a visiting scholar at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

in Princeton in 1966-6Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
and a researcher at

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gene ...

. He is the founder in 1972 of th
International Colloquium of Group Theoretical Methods in Physics
He has numerous publications on theoretical physics, problems of symmetry in various fields ranging from relativity to

particle physics Particle physics or high energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The fundamental particles in the universe are classified in the Standard Model as fermions (matter particles) an ...

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviole ...

, physics of

sound In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ...

and

statistical mechanics In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods and probability theory to large assemblies of microscopic entities. It does not assume or postulate any natural laws, but explains the macroscopic be ...

and some work in

Selected publications

* with

Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond (born 1940) is a physicist and essayist. Biography After high school in Cannes, Lévy-Leblond studied mathematics at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly (Paris), then entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1958. A member of ...

''Possible Kinematics'', J. Math. Phys., vol. 9, 1969, pp. 1605–1614 (discussed by Freeman Dyson his 1972 Gibbs Lectur
''Missed opportunities''

''Constellations and projective classical groups''
Comm. Math. Pays., vol. 72, 1980, pp. 119–130
Group theory and constellations
Editions Publibook, 2004.

References

External links

Henri Bacry biography at www.canal-u.fr
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bacry, Henri French physicists Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars 1928 births 2010 deaths People associated with CERN