Eugène Cremmer

Eugène Cremmer (born 7 February 1942 in Paris) is a French physicist. He is directeur de recherche at the CNRS working at the École Normale Supérieure.[1] In 1978, together with Bernard Julia and Joël Scherk, he co-developed 11 dimensional supergravity theory[2] and proposed a mechanism of spontaneous compactification in field theory.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Eugène CREMMER". Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Duff M J The Theory Formerly Known as Strings, Scientific American Feb 1998, 64-69.
  3. ↑ E Cremmer, J Scherk: Spontaneous compactification of space in an Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs model - Nuclear Physics B, 1976


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