Alex Grossmann

Alexander "Alex" Grossmann, Alexandre Grossman, (* August 5, 1930 in Zagreb ) is a Yugoslav- French physicist who in the early 1980s with Jean Morlet was a pioneer of wavelets, especially the wavelet transform (CWT ).

Life

He left Yugoslavia in 1955, where he was at the Institute Ruđer Bošković, and studied theoretical physics at Harvard University. He was since the 1960s, theoretical physicist at the Centre de Physique théorique the CNRS and the University of the Mediterranean Aix -Marseille II in Luminy. In the 1970s he worked there several times with Ingrid Daubechies together, who wrote her PhD at the Free University of Brussels. Morlet turned to Grossman ( on the recommendation of his former fellow student Roger Balian ) in order to obtain a mathematical foundation for the empirically found by him allowing for development and reconstruction of signals with wavelets.

He also dealt with many areas of physics, from solid-state physics and signal processing to gravity.

In 1997 he received the first Prix Special of the French Physical Society.