What is Krzysztof Gawedzki?
[[File:Gawedzki.jpg|thumb|<center>Gawędzki, Erlangen 1974</center>]] '''Krzysztof Gawędzki''' (2 July 1947 – 21 January 2022) was a Polish-born French mathematical physicist. He was born in [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]]. In the 1980s Gawędzki did research at [[CNRS]] at the [[IHES]] near Paris. He was a professor at the [[École normale supérieure de Lyon]] (ENS de Lyon). He was an emeritus researcher there.<ref>{{cite web|title=Krzysztof Gawedzki, Thermodynamics of Fluctuations in Fast Processes|date=4 February 2016|website=ICFO Colloquia|url=https://icfo.eu/calendar2?event=2960|access-date=29 January 2022|archive-date=29 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129113620/https://icfo.eu/calendar2?event=2960|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was known for his research in the mathematics of [[quantum field theory]] (QFT), especially [[conformal field theory]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Krzysztof Gawedzki|website=nLab|url=https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Krzysztof+Gawedzki}}</ref> Gawedzki died in [[Lyon]], [[France]] on 21 January 2022, at the age of 74.<ref>{{cite news |title=Décès de Krzysztof Gawędzki (1947 – 2022) |url=https://www.ihes.fr/deces-de-krzysztof-gawedzki/ |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=IHES |date=25 January 2022}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gawędzki, Krzysztof}} [[Category:1947 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:Polish mathematicians]] [[Category:French mathematicians]] [[Category:Writers from Warsaw]] {{bio-stub}}