Alexandru Proca

Alexandru Proca
Born(1897-10-16)16 October 1897
Died13 December 1955(1955-12-13) (aged 58)
NationalityRomanian
CitizenshipRomania
France
Alma materPolitehnica University of Bucharest
Paris-Sorbonne University
Known forProca's equations
AwardsHonorary member of the Romanian Academy (elected post-mortem in 1990)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
Thesis On the relativistic theory of Dirac's electron  (1933)
Doctoral advisorLouis 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.