Raymond Stora

Raymond Félix Stora (18 September 1930 – 20 July 2015[1]) was a French theoretical physicist. He was a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), as well as a member of CERN's theory group. His work focused on particle physics.[2]

Raymond Stora
Born(1930-09-18)September 18, 1930
DiedJuly 20, 2015(2015-07-20) (aged 84)
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsDannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 2009
Max Planck Medal, 1998
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsFrench National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de physique des particules
Doctoral advisorVictor Weisskopf
Doctoral studentsJean Bellissard
Frédéric Pham

Stora studied at the École Polytechnique from 1951 to 1953, and then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received a doctorate in 1958 under the supervision of Victor Weisskopf. Stora's most influential contribution to physics was his work with Carlo Becchi and Alain Rouet 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 in 1994.[2] In 2009, he was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.[3]

References

  1. "Raymond Stora (1930-2015)". Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de physique théorique (LAPTh). July 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  2. "Raymond Stora Bio" (PDF) (in French). French Academy of Sciences. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
  3. Sacco, Laurent (November 18, 2008). "Raymond Stora, lauréat du Prix Dannie Heineman de Physique Mathématique" (in French). Futura - Sciences. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
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