Holger Bech Nielsen

Holger Bech Nielsen (born 25 August, 1941) is a Danish theoretical physicist, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, at the University of Copenhagen, where he started studying physics in 1961.

Holger Bech Nielsen has made original contributions to theoretical particle physics specifically in the field of string theory. Independently of Nambu and Susskind, he was the first to propose that the Veneziano model was actually a theory of strings and this is why he is considered among the fathers of string theory. He was awarded the highly esteemed Humboldt Prize in 2001 for his scientific research. Several nuclear physics concepts are named after him, e.g. Nielsen-Olesen Vortex and the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem for representing chiral fermions on the lattice. He is known in Denmark for his enthusiastic public lectures on physics, his latest being at University of Southern Denmark in Odense (March 10, 2005), Kulturhuset i Skanderborg (January 26, 2006), at EUCVest in Esbjerg (March 21, 2006), and at Regensen in Copenhagen (April 12, 2006). In July 2008 he lectured for children at the summer camp for the Danish Association of Gifted Children

See also

* Nielsen-Olesen vortex

External links

* [http://www.nbi.dk/~hbech/ Holger Bech Nielsen] , personal page.
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238658/ Teorien om alting/The Theory of Everything] , Internet Movie Database.
* [http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/mol/Welcome.html Videnskaben eller Gud?/Science Or God?] , webpage about the book in Danish.