Michel Plancherel | |
Birth Date: | 16 January 1885 |
Birth Place: | Bussy, Switzerland |
Death Place: | Zürich, Switzerland |
Fields: | Mathematics |
Workplaces: | ETH Zurich |
Alma Mater: | University of Fribourg |
Thesis Title: | Sur les congruences (mod. 2m) relatives au nombre des classes des formes quadratiques binaires aux coefficients entiers et à discriminant négatif |
Thesis Url: | https://bcufr.swisscovery.slsp.ch/permalink/41SLSP_BCUFR/13cv4r8/alma991017442249705509 |
Thesis Year: | 1907 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Mathias Lerch |
Known For: | Plancherel measure Plancherel theorem Plancherel theorem for spherical functions |
Michel Plancherel (pronounced as /fr/; 16 January 1885 – 4 March 1967) was a Swiss mathematician.
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.