Albert Messiah
Albert Messiah · Science & Medicine
Physicist; author of a classic Quantum Mechanics textbook
1921, Nice, France — 2013, Paris, France
France
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Messiah was a French theoretical physicist best known for his two-volume 'Quantum Mechanics,' one of the most widely used graduate textbooks of the twentieth century, translated into many languages. Born into a French Jewish family, he joined the Free French Forces during the Second World War before pursuing a career in nuclear and particle physics at the French Atomic Energy Commission and in academia. His treatise shaped how generations of physicists learned the subject.
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Physicist; author of a classic Quantum Mechanics textbook
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