Kurt Symanzik
Kurt Symanzik (November 23 1923 in Lyck, Germany – October 25 1983 in Hamburg, Germany) was a German physicist working in Quantum field theory.
Life
Symanzik spent his childhood in Königsberg. He started studying physics in 1946 at Universität München but after a short time moved to Werner Heisenberg at Göttingen. There also the fruitfuull collaboration with Wolfhart Zimmermann and Harry Lehmann started. 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 the Hamburg DESY.
Work
Symanzik is most well known for LSZ reduction formula and the Callan-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 the Euclidean quantum field theory ansatz.
Since 1970 his interests shifted to Lattice gauge theory.
In 1981 he was awarded the Max Planck medal.
References
- Jaffe, Lehmann, Mack, Orbituary in Mathematical Physics, 97, 1985, pg.1
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