Édouard Brézin
Édouard Brézin · Science & Medicine
French theorist of critical phenomena; Dirac Medal (2011)
1938, Paris, France
France
Édouard Brézin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — French theorist of critical phenomena; Dirac Medal (2011)
Brézin was born in Paris to a Jewish family that survived the Nazi occupation in hiding. A leading French theorist at the École normale supérieure, he applied renormalization-group ideas to critical phenomena — the universal behaviour of matter near phase transitions — and to random matrices and field theory, receiving the ICTP Dirac Medal in 2011. He is Jewish.
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French theorist of critical phenomena; Dirac Medal (2011)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dirac Medal (ICTP)
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