David John Candlin (1928 in

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, Surrey – 4 December 2019) was an

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. He was known for developing the path integral formulation of the

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, inventing Grassmann integration for this purpose. He received his PhD from

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in 1955, and wrote his influential paper on Grassmann integration shortly thereafter. He was later appointed a lecturer at the

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and retired from this post in 1995. He was at one time involved in collaborative work related to CERN. In 1955 he married

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, crystallographer and later computer scientist.''The Times'', 6 Sep 1955, p1

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Candlin, David John 1928 births Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars English physicists 2019 deaths Academics of the University of Edinburgh People associated with CERN