Carlo Becchi

In 1976, he became full professor for theoretical physics at the University of Genoa.From 1997 to 2003 he was the chairman of the theory committee of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN).Becchi began by looking into the photoelectric effect in nuclear physics (topic of his thesis).Becchi became known for his development around 1975 with Raymond Stora and Alain Rouet of the BRST formalism[1] (independently done by Igor Tyutin), which is a method of quantization of systems with secondary conditions like gauge theory.In 2009 as recognition for the BRST formalism, he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Stora, Rouet, and Tyutin.
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