Eugène Cremmer

Eugène Cremmer (7 February 1942, in Paris – 30 October 2019, in Paris^{[citation needed]}) was a French theoretical physicist. He was directeur de recherche at the CNRS working at the École Normale Supérieure.^[1] Cremmer was a postdoc at CERN from 1971–72.^[2] In 1978, together with Bernard Julia and Joël Scherk, he co-developed eleven-dimensional supergravity theory^[3] and proposed a mechanism of spontaneous compactification in field theory.^[4] He was also one of the first to write down the full 4D N = 1 supergravity action in 1982.^[5][6]

References

1. "Eugène CREMMER". Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
2. "Eugène Cremmer: 1942-2019". CERN Courier. 19 July 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
3. Duff M J The Theory Formerly Known as Strings, Scientific American Feb 1998, 64–69.
4. E Cremmer, J Scherk: Spontaneous compactification of space in an Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs model - Nuclear Physics B, 1976
5. Cremmer, E.; Ferrara, S.; Girardello, L.; Van Proeyen, A. (1983). "Yang-Mills theories with local supersymmetry: Lagrangian, transformation laws and super-Higgs effect". Nuclear Physics B. 212 (3): 413–442. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90679-X.
6. Cremmer, E.; Ferrara, S.; Girardello, L.; Van Proeyen, A. (1982). "Coupling supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories to supergravity". Physics Letters B. 116 (4): 231–237. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(82)90332-X.