Joël Scherk (French: [jɔɛl ʃɛʁk]; 27 May 1946 – 16 May 1980) was a French theoretical physicist who studied string theory and supergravity. Scherk studied...
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Scherk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Heinrich Scherk (1798–1885), German mathematician Joël Scherk (1946–1980), French physicist...
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In theoretical physics, the Scherk–Schwarz mechanism (named after Joël Scherk and John Henry Schwarz) for a field φ basically means that φ is a section...
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theory is eleven. In the same year, Eugene Cremmer, Bernard Julia, and Joël Scherk of the École Normale Supérieure showed that supergravity not only permits...
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may actually cancel the gravitational attraction in the static limit. Joël Scherk investigated semirealistic aspects of this phenomenon, stimulating searches...
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theoretical appeal of its asymptotic freedom). In 1974, John H. Schwarz and Joël Scherk, and independently Tamiaki Yoneya, studied the boson-like patterns of...
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supersymmetry. Discovered in 1978 by Eugène Cremmer, Bernard Julia, and Joël Scherk, it quickly became a popular candidate for a theory of everything during...
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theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded...
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activist Jerry Sherk (born 1948), former American football defensive tackle Joël Scherk (1946–1980), French theoretical physicist Sean Sherk (born 1973), American...
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Olive and Joël Scherk, he proposed the GSO projection to map out the tachyonic states in the Neveu–Schwarz sector. Gliozzi, Ferdinando; Scherk, Joël; Olive...
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