Klaus Pohlmeyer

Klaus Pohlmeyer (born October 24, 1938 in Bielefeld ; † September 30, 2008 in Freiburg ) was a German physicist and university professor .

Live and act

Klaus Pohlmeyer grew up in Bad Oeynhausen after the Second World War . After graduating from high school , he served in an artillery unit of the German Armed Forces and began studying physics at the University of Göttingen in the summer semester of 1958 , where he joined the Holzminda fraternity .

In 1959 he also studied an additional semester at the TH Aachen . In 1961 he left Göttingen to go to the University of Hamburg , which he left from October 1961 to March 1962 to study for two semesters at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland . Then he continued his studies in Hamburg. There Pohlmeyer did his doctorate in 1966 with Harry Lehmann .

At the University of Freiburg he later held the chair for theoretical physics until 2004. He worked in the areas of quantum field theory , gravity and string theory . The Pohlmeyer charge , the Pohlmeyer string and the Pohlmeyer algebra were named after him. Karl-Henning Rehren received his doctorate from Pohlmeyer .

Honors

1971 Academy of Sciences in Göttingen : Academy Prize for Physics for work in the field of quantum field theory

Publications (selection)

Properties of the coefficients of the decomposition of the field operator according to asymptotic fields . Dissertation Hamburg 1966.
A group-theoretical approach to the quantization of the free relativistic closed string . In: Physics Letters B . tape 119 , no. 1-3 , 1982, pp. 100-104 , doi : 10.1016 / 0370-2693 (82) 90254-4 (Pohlmeyer first published on the later so-called Pohlmeyer strings ).

literature

Klaus Pohlmeyer 1938-2008 . In: Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda Göttingen . Ostfildern 2008, pp. 151–154.

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Scientific relationships from Klaus Pohlmeyer

Individual evidence

^ Klaus Pohlmeyer: Properties of the coefficients of the decomposition of the field operator according to asymptotic fields . 1966, OCLC 15811005 (dissertation, Hamburg, 1966).

personal data
SURNAME	Pohlmeyer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 2008
Place of death	Freiburg in Breisgau

[1] Klaus Pohlmeyer: Properties of the coefficients of the decomposition of the field operator according to asymptotic fields . 1966, OCLC 15811005 (dissertation, Hamburg, 1966).