- Rudolf Haag
Rudolf Haag (* 17th August 1922 in
Tübingen ,Germany ) is a Germanphysicist . He is best known for his contributions to the algebraic formulation ofaxiom aticquantum field theory , namely theHaag-Kastler axioms , and a centralno-go theorem in QFT,Haag's theorem , which demonstrates the nonexistence of aunitary time-evolution operator in theinteraction picture .Haag studied Physics at Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, now the
University of Stuttgart , from 1948 to 1954 and then worked on his dissertation inMunich . His supervisor was Fritz Bopp. From 1956 to 1957 he was at Max Planck Institute inGöttingen . After doing one year each as visiting professor atPrinceton University andUniversity of Marseille , he was professor of physics at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for six years until 1966.After that and until his retirement he held a chair for theoretical physics at the
University of Hamburg .In 1965 he founded the journal
Communications in Mathematical Physics .He was awarded the
Max Planck medal in 1970 and thePoincaré Prize of theInternational Association of Mathematical Physics in 1997.ee also
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Haag-Lopuszanski-Sohnius theorem
*Haag-Kastler axioms
*Haag's theorem References
* "An algebraic approach to quantum field theory" by Rudolf Haag, Daniel Kastler (Illinois U., Urbana), [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?j=JMAPA,5,848 J.Math.Phys.5:848-861,1964]
Links
* [http://unith.desy.de/people/allmembers/haag/ A picture of Rudolf Haag at II. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Hamburg University] (Photographer: Ralf D. Tscheuschner, a pupil of Haag)
Further reading
*Kastler, Daniel (2003): "Rudolf Haag - Eighty Years". Communications in Mathematical Physics (ISSN|0010-3616), Vol 237, No 1, pp 3-6. (DOI|10.1007/s00220-003-0829-1)
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