Raymond Félix Stora (18 September 1930 – 20 July 2015
) was a French theoretical physicist. He was a research director at the French
National Centre for Scientific Research
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(CNRS), as well as a member of
CERN
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's theory group. His work focused on
particle physics
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.
Stora studied at the
École Polytechnique
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from 1951 to 1953, and then at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(MIT), where he received a doctorate in 1958 under the supervision of
Victor Weisskopf
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. Stora's most influential contribution to physics was his work with
Carlo Becchi
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Becchi studied at the University of Genoa, where he received his university degree in physics in 1962. In 1976, he became full professor for theoretical physics at ...
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
French Academy of Sciences
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in 1994.
In 2009, he was awarded the
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
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.
References
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
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