- Kurt Symanzik
Kurt Symanzik (
November 23 1923 –October 25 1983 ) was a Germanphysicist working inquantum field theory .Life
Symanzik was born in Lyck (Ełk),
East Prussia , and spent his childhood inKönigsberg . He started studying physics in 1946 at Universität München but after a short time moved toWerner Heisenberg atGöttingen . There also the fruitful collaboration withWolfhart Zimmermann andHarry Lehmann started. In 1954 he earned his PhD for his thesis "The Schwinger functional in quantum field theory".After teaching at Princeton and CERN he gained a full professorship at the
New York Courant Institute , which he left 1968 for theHamburg DESY . He died in Hamburg.Work
Symanzik is most well known for
LSZ reduction formula and theCallan-Symanzik equation .His early work in non-pertubative quantum field theory together in a circle with other researches nicknamed "
Feldverein " led to now classic results. He also contributed to theEuclidean quantum field theory ansatz.Since 1970 his interests shifted to
Lattice gauge theory . In 1981 he was awarded theMax Planck medal .References
* A. Jaffe, H. Lehmann, and G. Mack, "Kurt Symanzik", Commun. math Phys. 97, pp. 1-4 (1985). [http://www.springerlink.com/content/k132k0j1024150v1/ SpringerLink] .
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