Claude Itzykson
Claude Itzykson · Science & Medicine
Physicist; quantum field theory (co-author of a standard textbook)
1938, Paris, France — 1995, Paris, France
France
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Claude Itzykson was a French theoretical physicist at the CEA in Saclay, a specialist in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. With Jean-Bernard Zuber he wrote 'Quantum Field Theory' (1980), for decades a standard graduate textbook worldwide. He was Jewish; separated from his parents during the Second World War, his father deported to a Nazi camp, he was raised in a Jewish orphanage.
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Physicist; quantum field theory (co-author of a standard textbook)
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