Walter Thirring
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Walter Eduard Thirring (29 April 1927 – 19 August 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named.[1] He was the son of the physicist Hans Thirring.[2][3][4]
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Walter E. Thirring | |
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Born | (1927-04-29)29 April 1927 |
Died | 19 August 2014(2014-08-19) (aged 87) Vienna, Austria |
Nationality | Austrian |
Alma mater | University of Innsbruck (Ph.D., 1949) |
Known for | Thirring model Thirring–Wess model Lieb-Thirring inequality |
Parent | Hans Thirring (father) |
Awards | Erwin Schrödinger Prize (1969) Max Planck Medal (1978) Henri Poincaré Prize (2000) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | University of Vienna |
Doctoral advisor | Felix Ehrenhaft |
Doctoral students | Peter C. Aichelburg Peter Freund Peter Grassberger |
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