David John Candlin (1928 in Croydon, SurreyBirth record – 4 December 2019) was an English physicist. He was known for developing the path integral formulation of the Fermionic field, inventing Grassmann integration for this purpose. He received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1955, and wrote his influential paper on Grassmann integration shortly thereafter. He was later appointed a lecturer at the University of EdinburghA Community of Scholars: The Institute for Advanced Study, Faculty and Members 1930-1980 and retired from this post in 1995.Institute for Advanced Study He was at one time involved in collaborative work related to CERN.Aleph collaborationInspire author profile for Candlin, D.J.
In 1955 he married Rosemary Shaw, crystallographer and later computer scientist.The Times, 6 Sep 1955, p1
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