Raymond Félix Stora (18 September 1930 – 20 July 2015) was a French theoretical physicist. He was a research director at the French

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(CNRS), as well as a member of

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's theory group. His work focused on

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. Stora studied at the

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from 1951 to 1953, and then at

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(MIT), where he received a doctorate in 1958 under the supervision of

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. Stora's most influential contribution to physics was his work with

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and

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on a rigorous mathematical procedure for quantizing non-abelian gauge field theories, which dates from the mid 1970s and is now known as BRST quantization. Stora was elected as a correspondent to the physics section of the

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in 1994. In 2009, he was awarded the

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1930 births 2015 deaths Theoretical physicists Members of the French Academy of Sciences 20th-century French physicists Jewish scientists Winners of the Max Planck Medal MIT Department of Physics alumni École Polytechnique alumni Scientists from Paris Mathematical physicists People associated with CERN {{France-physicist-stub