Detlev Buchholz (physicist)

Detlev Buchholz (born May 31, 1944 in Danzig ) is a German physicist .

life and work

Buchholz studied physics in Hanover and Hamburg , where he received his diploma in 1968. 1970/71 he was at the University of Pennsylvania . After receiving his doctorate in 1972 in Hamburg with Rudolf Haag , he worked at the University of Hamburg and was at CERN in 1974/75 . From 1975 to 1978 he worked as a research assistant in Hamburg, where he completed his habilitation in 1977. In 1978/79 he was a Max Kade Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1979 he became a professor in Hamburg and in 1997 moved to the University of Göttingen . He has been retired since 2010.

Buchholz made important contributions to relativistic quantum physics and quantum field theory , especially in the area of axiomatic quantum field theory .

Detlev Buchholz received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society in 2008 “for his outstanding contributions to quantum field theory”. In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin ( Scaling algebras in local relativistic quantum physics ).

Fonts

• Quantum field theory without fields , Physik Journal Vol. 7, 2008, No. 8/9 (article on receiving the Planck Medal)
• Buchholz "Algebraic QFT - a status report", Plenary Talk 12th International Congress Mathematical Physics, 2000
• Haag, Buchholz “The Quest for Understanding Relativistic Quantum Physics”, J.Math.Phys. 2000
• Buchholz "Current Trends in Axiomatic QFT", Ringberg Symposium 1998, Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 558, 2000, p. 43

Prices

• Pohl Medal of the Faculty of Physics at the Georg-August University of Göttingen in the 2007/2008 winter semester for exceptional teaching achievements

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Physics Prizes 2008" Physik Journal 7 No. 1 (2008), 56
2. ^ Website of the University of Göttingen. Accessed December 12, 2015

Web links

• QFT group in Göttingen (with a picture by D. Buchholz)
• Author profile in the database zbMATH