Louis Michel (physicist)

Louis Michel (French pronunciation: [lwi miʃɛl]; 1923–1999) was a French mathematical physicist at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS).[1] He was born in Roanne, in the Loire department in central France, on 4 May 1923, and died in Bures-sur-Yvette (Essonne), in the Île-de-France region, on 30 December 1999. His name is associated with Michel parameters describing the phase space distribution of leptonic decays of charged leptons, the Bargmann–Michel–Telegdi equation describing spin evolution in a magnetic field,[2] and the Michel–Radicati theory for the SU(3) octet,[3][4]

  1. ^ Cipra, Barry Arthur (8 January 1998). "A Gem of a Definition". Scientific American. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 2007-11-19.
  2. ^ Bargman, V.; Michel, L.; Telegdi, V. (1959). "Precession of the Polarization of Particles Moving in a Homogeneous Electromagnetic Field". Physical Review Letters. 2 (10): 435. Bibcode:1959PhRvL...2..435B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.2.435.
  3. ^ Michel, L.; Radicati, L. (1971). "Properties of the breaking of hadronic internal symmetry". Annals of Physics. 66 (2): 758. Bibcode:1971AnPhy..66..758M. doi:10.1016/0003-4916(71)90079-0.
  4. ^ Michel, L.; Radicati, L. (1973). "The geometry of the octet" (PDF). Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré A. 18: 185. MR 0325036. Zbl 0267.22019.