André Petermann
Swiss theoretical physicist (1922–2011) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andreas Emil Petermann (27 September 1922, Lausanne, Switzerland – 21 August 2011, Lausanne), known as André Petermann, was a Swiss theoretical physicist known for introducing the renormalization group, suggesting a quark-like model, and work related to the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon.[1]
Petermann obtained his doctorate from the University of Lausanne in May 1952[2][3] under the supervision of professor Ernst Stueckelberg. The work was funded by the Swiss Atomic Energy Commission.[4] Following Lausanne, Petermann moved on to the University of Manchester,[5] UK, before he became a CERN staff member in 1955. The CERN Theory Division was at that time still hosted at the University of Copenhagen.[6] [7] It was then moved to Geneva together with the CERN experimental groups in 1957.[8]