Michel Plancherel was a Swiss mathematician, born on 16 January 1885 in Bussy in the Canton of Fribourg. He obtained his diploma in mathematics from the University of Fribourg and his doctoral degree in 1907 with a thesis written under the supervision of Mathias Lerch. He was a professor at Fribourg from 1911 and from 1920 at ETH Zurich. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1924 in Toronto and in 1928 in Bologna. He was married to Cécile Tercier, had nine children, presided at the Mission Catholique Française in Zurich, and died on 4 March 1967.
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He was born in Bussy (Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland) and obtained his Diplom in mathematics from the University of Fribourg and then his doctoral degree in 1907 with a thesis written under the supervision of Mathias Lerch.
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proven by Michel Plancherel in 1910
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