Jose Moyal
Jose Moyal · Science & Medicine
Statistical physics; the Moyal bracket in quantum mechanics
1910, Jerusalem — 1998, Canberra, Australia
Palestine · France · United Kingdom · Australia
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José Enrique Moyal was a mathematical physicist who developed the phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics and the 'Moyal bracket', unifying ideas of Weyl, Wigner, von Neumann and Groenewold after a famous exchange with Paul Dirac. He also worked in statistical physics and stochastic processes, and taught in Australia at ANU and Macquarie. He was Jewish.
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Statistical physics; the Moyal bracket in quantum mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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