André Neveu

André Neveu ( born August 28, 1946 in Paris ) is a French theoretical physicist who works mainly on string theory and quantum field theory.

Neveu studied in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS ). In 1969 he received his diploma ( Thèse de Troisieme Cycle) at the University of Paris-Sud ( Univ. Paris XI) in Orsay with Philippe Meyer and Claude Bouchiat and 1971 a Ph.D. ( Thèse d'État ) it there. In 1969, he was ( as an employee of the CNRS) at John Black and David Gross at Princeton University, where he divergences in one- loop diagrams in the bosonic string theory looked with his French fellow students Joel Scherk ( they discovered the cause tachyon divergences ). 1971 to 1974 he was at the Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Paris XI, where he showed with Scherk, which could describe the spin-1 excitations of strings Yang-Mills theories. By 1971 Neveu developed with John Black in Princeton simultaneously with Pierre Ramond (1971 ) the first string theory, which also described fermions (named after the three authors NSR string theory). At the same time was an early work on supersymmetry, which was introduced about the same time by Russian physicist Yuri as golfand. At Princeton, he developed with David Gross - Neveu model and the Gross he examined, among other things Roger Dashen and Brosl Hasslacher quantum field theoretical models of extended hadrons and semi-classical approximations in quantum field theory, which was reflected in the DHN method for quantization of solitons. 1972 to 1977 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he spent half the time in Orsay. 1974 to 1983 he was at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of the ENS and 1983-1989 in the theory division of CERN. From 1975 he was Maitre de Recherche at the CNRS and from 1985 Directeur de Recherche. From 1989 he worked at the Institute (laboratory ) for Theoretical Physics, University of Montpellier II (now LPTA, Laboratory of Theoretical and Astroparticle Physics). 1994/5 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1973 he received the Prix Paul Langevin of the French Physical Society. In 1988 he received the together with the German Physical Society (DPG ) awarded Gentner - Kastler prize.

Neveu is married and has three children.

Writings

• Introduction to Strings and superstrings. In: Physical leaves. Volume 44, 1988, p 195 (on the occasion of the award of the Gentner - Kastler Prize ).
• Dual Resonance Models and Strings in QCD. In: Les Houches Lectures. Volume 39, 1982, p 760