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Name
  
Daniel Kastler

Role
  
Physicist

Parents
  
Alfred Kastler


Books
  
Cyclic Cohomology Within the Differential Envelope: An Introduction to Alain Connes' Non-commutative Differential Geometry

Daniel Kastler ([kastlɛʁ]; 4 March 1926, Bandol – 8 July 2015) was a French theoretical physicist, working at University of Aix-Marseille (Luminy) on non-commutative geometry.

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Kastler is best known for his 1964 article with Rudolf Haag on algebraic quantum field theory (the Haag–Kastler axioms), 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
  • References

    Daniel Kastler Wikipedia