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Alexandre Proca

APR 01, 1957

DOI: 10.1063/1.3060350

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Friends of the Alexandre Proca, the brilliant French theoretician who died in 1955 of cancer of the throat, will be interested to know of the activities of a number of leading French scientists who have formally established the “Comité des Amis d’Alexandre Proca” for the purpose of raising funds to provide for the needs of Proca’s widow and for the further education of her son, Georges Proca, who is now a student at the Faculté des Sciences de Paris.

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