Hans-Jürgen Borchers

Physicist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroPhysicist
PlacesGermany
isScientist Mathematician Physicist Educator
Work fieldAcademia Mathematics Science
Gender
Male
BirthHamburg
DeathGöttingen
The details

Biography

Hans-Jürgen Borchers (24 January 1926, Hamburg – 10 September 2011, Göttingen) was a mathematical physicist at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen who worked on operator algebras and quantum field theory. He introduced Borchers algebras and the Borchers commutation relations and Borchers classes in quantum field theory. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1994. Among his students is Jakob Yngvason.

Selected publications

  • Borchers, Hans-Jürgen (1996), Translation group and particle representations in quantum field theory, Lecture Notes in Physics. New Series m: Monographs, 40, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-49954-1, ISBN 978-3-540-61140-0, MR 1401343 

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.