Michel Plancherel
Swiss mathematician (1885–1967)
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Michel Plancherel (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl plɑ̃ʃʁɛl]; 16 January 1885 – 4 March 1967) was a Swiss mathematician.
Michel Plancherel | |
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 Michel Plancherel at the International Mathematical Congress, Zürich 1932 | |
| Born | 16 January 1885 Bussy, Switzerland |
| Died | 4 March 1967 (aged 82) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Alma mater | University of Fribourg |
| Known for | Plancherel measure Plancherel theorem Plancherel theorem for spherical functions |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | ETH Zurich |
| Thesis | Sur les congruences (mod. 2m) relatives au nombre des classes des formes quadratiques binaires aux coefficients entiers et à discriminant négatif (1907) |
| Mathias Lerch | |
Biography
He was born in Bussy (Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland) and obtained his Diplom in mathematics from the University of Fribourg and then his doctoral degree in 1907 with a thesis written under the supervision of Mathias Lerch. Plancherel was a professor in Fribourg (1911), and from 1920 at ETH Zurich.
He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem[1] in harmonic analysis. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1924 at Toronto[2] and in 1928 at Bologna.
He was married to Cécile Tercier, had nine children, and presided at the Mission Catholique Française in Zürich.
