Alexandru Proca

Alexandru Proca
Born	(1897-10-16)16 October 1897 Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Died	13 December 1955(1955-12-13) (aged 58) Paris, France
Nationality	Romanian
Citizenship	Romania France
Alma mater	Politehnica University of Bucharest Paris-Sorbonne University
Known for	Proca's equations
Awards	Honorary member of the Romanian Academy (elected post-mortem in 1990)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Thesis	On the relativistic theory of Dirac's electron  (1933)
Doctoral advisor	Louis de Broglie

Alexandru Proca (16 October 1897 – 13 December 1955) was a Romanian physicist who studied and worked in France. He developed the vector meson theory of nuclear forces and the relativistic quantum field equations that bear his name (Proca's equations) for the massive, vector spin-1 mesons.