Alexandru Proca | |
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| Born | 16 October 1897 |
| Died | 13 December 1955 (aged 58) |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Citizenship | Romania France |
| Alma mater | Politehnica University of Bucharest Paris-Sorbonne University |
| Known for | Proca's equations |
| Awards | Honorary member of the Romanian Academy (elected post-mortem in 1990) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Thesis | On the relativistic theory of Dirac's electron (1933) |
| Doctoral advisor | Louis de Broglie |
Alexandru Proca (16 October 1897 – 13 December 1955) was a Romanian physicist who studied and worked in France. He developed the vector meson theory of nuclear forces and the relativistic quantum field equations that bear his name (Proca's equations) for the massive, vector spin-1 mesons.