Symmetry Breaking

Franco Strocchi, after graduating with maximum cum laude at the University of Pisa and at Scuola Normale Superiore in 1961, was lecturer at both Institutions, research associate and visiting professor at Princeton University, visiting Schroedinger professor at Wien University, visiting scientist at CERN theory division, full professor of theoretical physics at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA, Trieste) and professor at Scuola Normale Superiore. He gave invited lectures at various meetings and International Schools and he is the author of several books on the subjects of his research works (Elements of Quantum Mechanics of Infinite Systems, World Scientific 1985, Selected Topics on the General Properties of Quantum Field Theory, World Scientific 1993, Symmetry Breaking, Springer 2005, 2008, An Introduction to the Mathematical Structure of Quantum Mechanics, World Scientific 2008, 2010,  An Introduction  to Non-Perturbative Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, Oxford University Press,  International Series of Monographs in Physics, 2013, 2016, Gauge Invariance and Weyl-Polymer Quantization, Springer 2016, A primer of Analytical Mechanics, Springer 2018) and of more than one hundred scientific papers.