Alex Grossmann

Alexander Grossmann (5 August 1930 to 12 February 2019) was a French-American physicist of Croatian origin. Born into a Jewish family in Zagreb, he fled the Independent State of Croatia in April 1941, lived in Italy and Switzerland during the war, and graduated in mathematics from the University of Zagreb in 1952. He worked at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute until 1955, then in the United States at the Institute for Advanced Study, Brandeis University and the Courant Institute, and in 1966 joined the Centre de Physique Theorique in Marseille as a research supervisor at the CNRS. In 1984 he did pioneering work on wavelet analysis with Jean Morlet, showing its applicability to signal analysis, and from 1993 he applied his methods to genomic research, working with the Evry mathematics and modelling laboratory until 2014.