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Release: May 1, 1995
Contact: Tom Krattenmaker (609/258-5748)


French Physicist to Deliver
Hamilton Lecture At Princeton

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Philippe Nozieres, professor of physics at the
College de France in Paris and professor at the Institut Max von
Laue-Paul Langevin in Grenoble, will deliver the 21st Donald Ross
Hamilton Memorial Lecture at Princeton University on Thursday, May
11.

Nozieres, who studied for two years at Princeton before completing
his PhD at the University of Paris in 1957, is widely recognized
as a "founding father" of modern many-body quantum theory. He has
made crucial contributions to the fundamental understanding of
"condensed matter" by studying the physics of low temperatures,
the solid state, crystal growth, and hydrodynamical suspensions.
His lecture will address the question: "Is Many-Body Physics a
Settled Issue?"

A member of the French National Academy and a foreign associate of
both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, Nozieres is a winner of the Wolf Prize in
Physics (1985) and the gold medal of the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique.

Begun in 1972, the Hamilton lecture series honors Princeton's
Donald Ross Hamilton '35, a distinguished nuclear physicist who
also served as dean of Princeton's Graduate School.

The lecture begins at 8 p.m. in Room A-10 of Jadwin Hall.

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