Biographie d'André Mercier
The Author : André Mercier, born 1913 in Geneva, studied geology to begin with, then mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Further studies in Paris (pupil of Elie Cartan and Louis de Broglie) and in Copenhagen (pupil of Niels Bohr and Jörgen Jörgensen). Then assistant at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and simultaneously lecturer at the University of Geneva. Thereafter professor of theoretical physics and philosophy at the University of Berne, Switzerland.
Member of numerous national and international learned Societies and Academies, he was made a Knight of the Danebrog and received a Dr. honoris causa from the C.H.-University of Peru.