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French physicist
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Birth:
4 March 1926(Bandol)
Death:
8 July 2015
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Daniel Kastler (French: [kastlɛʁ]; 4 March 1926, Bandol – 8 July 2015) was a French theoretical physicist, working at University of Aix-Marseille (Luminy) on non-commutative geometry.
Work
Kastler is best known for his 1964 article with Rudolf Haag on algebraic quantum field theory, which is one of the most cited papers in mathematical physics.
He is the son of Physics Nobel Prize laureate Alfred Kastler.
He died on Saturday, July 8, 2015 in Bandol, France.
Works (selection)
- An algebraic approach to quantum field theory by Rudolf Haag, Daniel Kastler (Illinois U., Urbana), J.Math.Phys.5:848-861,1964