Bernard Julia

Bernard L. Julia (* 1952 in Paris ) is a French theoretical and mathematical physicist.

Julia studied from 1970 at the Ecole Normale Superieure. He received his doctorate in 1978 at the University of Paris-Sud on gauge theories, but already in 1973 published, among others, André Neveu on polarization due to multiple reflection at the interface of two homogeneous media over ( with another work on elementary particle physics subject of his thesis 1974) and in 1975 with Anthony Zee excitations with electric and magnetic charge ( Dyon named ) in non -Abelian gauge theories. In 1976 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a Research Director of the CNRS at the Ecole Normale Superieure. With Eugène Cremmer and Scherk Joël he designed in 1978 the supergravity in 11 dimensions. Shortly afterwards he constructed with Cremmer N = 8 supergravity and examined the Higgs mechanism in the supergravity. He was then active in string theory and its further developments.

In 1994 he was awarded the Gay - Lussac- Humboldt Award and 1986 with the Paul Langevin Prize.