Francis Eugene Low (born 27.10.1921) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1967). He was born in New York. He graduated from Harvard University (1941). In 1950—52 he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and in 1952—57 at the University of Illinois. From 1957 he has been professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (in 1973—77 director of the Institute's Centre for Theoretical Physics and from 1979 director of the centre's Laboratory for Nuclear Science).
His research concerned quantum field theory, the physics of elementary particles, solid-state physics and the theory of superconductivity. In 1954, together with M. Gell-Mann, he developed the renormalisation group method; in 1955, with G. Chew, he constructed a theory of the scattering of pions by nucleons at low energies (the Chew — Low model); and in 1969 a theory with compensating fields of intermediate bosons.