Philippe Nozières

Philippe Nozières ( born April 12, 1932 in Paris ) is a French theoretical solid state physicist.

Nozières studied from 1951 to 1955 at the École supérieure normal ( diploma 1955) and conducted research from 1955 to 1957 at Princeton University. In 1957 he was at the University of Paris doctorate ( "Collective effects in solids "). He was from 1961 to 1972, first Maitre de Conferences and then a professor at the University of Paris and from 1976 to 1983 professor at the University of Grenoble. He was from 1972 at the Institut Laue -Langevin in Grenoble ( from 1976 head of the theory group until 2000) and at the same time Professor of Statistical Physics at the College de France in Paris (since 1983). In 2000 he retired.

Nozières is known for his theoretical work on quantum mechanical many-body problem in solids, in particular the concept of quasiparticles in Bose - Fermi liquids and ( originally introduced in more phenomenological nature of Lev Landau ) and the theory of the free electron gas in the region of metallic densities. He examined superfluid, transport phenomena in solids, the Kondo problem, Mott transitions between metals and insulators, the theory of singularity of the X-ray spectrum at the Fermi edge, Theory of friction, crystal growth and hydrodynamics of suspensions.

In 1974 he received the Holweck price of the UK Institute of Physics and the French Physical Society and in 1960 the Paul Langevin Prize. 1984/5 he was awarded with Conyers Herring the Wolf Prize in Physics. In 1988 he received the Gold Medal of the CNRS. In 2001 he received the Feenberg Medal. Since 1982 he is member of the French Academy of Sciences. 1979 to 1982 he was president of the committee Solid State Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics ( IUPAP ). In 1984, he was President of the French Physical Society. He is an honorary member of the European Physical Society. Since 1991 he is a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1992 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Since 1982, he is married to the scientist Catherine Michel, with whom he has three children.

Writings

  • Theory of interacting Fermi system. Benjamin 1964, Perseus Books 1997
  • Le Probleme N à Corps. Dunod 1963
  • Published by Cécile DeWitt: The Many Body Problem, Les Houches Lectures 1958, London, Methuen
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