Biography:Albert Messiah
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| Albert Messiah | |
| Born | 23 September 1921 Nice, France |
| Died | 17 April 2013
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| Known for | Quantum mechanics pedagogy; nuclear and theoretical physics |
Albert Messiah (23 September 1921 - 17 April 2013) was a French theoretical physicist best known to generations of physicists for his textbook Quantum Mechanics.
Quantum context
Messiah's textbook helped standardize the postwar presentation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, including Hilbert-space methods, angular momentum, perturbation theory, identical particles, and scattering theory.
In the Quantum Collection he is linked from topics where nodes, oscillators, and wave-mechanical structure are introduced, because his work is often used as a reference point for the formal language of quantum states and operators.
Linked Quantum Collection pages
- Physics:Quantum Node
- Physics:Quantum harmonic oscillator
- Physics:Quantum mechanics
- Physics:Quantum Hilbert space
References
- Messiah, Albert (1961). Quantum Mechanics. North-Holland.
- "Albert Messiah". Bibliotheque nationale de France. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11915940v.
Author: Harold Foppele
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