Mioara Mugur-Schächter is a French physicist of
Romanian
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origin, a specialist in
quantum physics and
epistemology
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Biography
Born in Romania, she arrived in France in 1962 from
Bucharest
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. Her PhD thesis, of which the whole content had been elaborated beforehand in Bucharest and sent to
Louis de Broglie
Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (, also , or ; 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to Old quantum theory, quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he pos ...
, was published in a volume prefaced by de Broglie and published in the collection "Les grands problèmes des sciences", Gauthiers Villars, Paris, 1964.
She became a professor of theoretical physics at the
University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (; URCA), also known simply as the University of Reims, is a public university based in Reims, France.
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, where she founded the Laboratory for Quantum Mechanics and Information Structure, which she directed until 1997.
Selected publications
:* ''Étude du caractère complet de la théorie quantique'' (1964)
:* The quantum mechanical one-system formalism, joint probabilities and locality, in Quantum Mechanics a half Century Later, J. L. Lopes and M. Paty, eds., Reidel, pp. 107-146, 1977
:* Study of Wigner’s Theorem on Joint Probabilities, Found. Phys., Vol. 9, pp. 389-404, 1979.
:* Le concept nouveau de fonctionnelle d’opacité d’une statistique. Etude des relations entre la loi des grands nombres, l’entropie informationnelle et l’entropie statistique, Anns. de l’Inst. H. Poincaré, Section A, vol XXXII, no. 1, pp. 33-71, 1980
:* The Probabilistic-Informational Concept of an Opacity Functional, (en collab. Avec N. Hadjissavas), Kybernetes, pp.189-193, Vol. 11(3), 1982.
:* Toward a Factually induced Spacetime Quantum Logic, Found. of Phys., Vol. 22, No. 7, pp. 963-994, 1992
:* Quantum Probabilities, Komogorov probabilities, and Informational Probabilities, Int. J. Theor. Phys., Vol. 33, No.1, pp. 53-90, 1994.
See also
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Constructivist epistemology
References
External links
Her web siteIntroduction of the collective book "QUANTUM MECHANICS, MATHEMATICS, COGNITION AND ACTION : Proposals for a formalized epistemology"Article "Quantum mechanics versus a method of relativized conceptualization"
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Romanian emigrants to France
Academic staff of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
French physicists
Quantum physicists